.... Children from these communities experience higher rates of infant mortality, suicide and unintentional injury. From a traditional Lakota perspective, many of the health disparities faced in Aboriginal communities are linked to imbalances in the family and community. These imbalances can lead to detrimental...

...Richard W. Voss; Victor Douville; Alex Little Soldier; Gayla Twiss Tribal and Shamanic-Based Social Work Practice: A Lakota Perspective Richard W. Voss, Victor Douville, Alex Little Soldier, and Gayla Twiss This article takes a critical look at the social...

...Although the rhetoric, ideology, and intention of a Lakota Sun Dance held in 1991 were emphatically inclusive, expanding on the ritual formula and invocation Mitakuye oyasin (“All my relations” or “We are all related”), conflict broke out along preexisting lines of cleavage: not so...

... arrival of on Lakota reservations Custer National Cemetery Fort Leavenworth Fort Riley cemetery at monument honoring massacred Lakota Petrucci Armando savages stereotypes and American perspectives US Army arrival of on Lakota reservations US Civil War and Burton’s dedication of monument written...

...This chapter delves into the ways in which the Lakota People commemorate relatives killed in the Wounded Knee Massacre. It specifically highlights the monument built by the Lakotas on a hill beside where the confrontation happened to protest against the “Chief Big Foot Massacre.” During the period...

... to the importance of cascading side effects, multiply authored and peripherally propagated, emerging where one might not expect them to. The redress networks occasioned by the late-life frailties of Sitting Bull are a case in point. The nineteenth-century Lakota warrior, celebrated for his military prowess in his...

...The Lakota Hoop Dance is a choreographed prayer that aims to create health and healing at the individual and collective levels of human life through an expression and manifestation of the principle of unity. For instance, at first glance, the dance might be seen as an incredible physical feat...

...This chapter examines the 1890 Ghost Dance, a nonviolent religious practice among the Lakota Sioux. In covering the Ghost Dance, daily newspaper editors Joseph Pulitzer (the New York World) and William Randolph Hearst (the San Francisco Examiner), along...

...This chapter turns to indigenous traditions, specifically those of American Indians, and to two concrete religio-cultural practices of the Lakota peoples. Following George Tinker, Scheid explicates four features of American Indian worldviews that differ from and critique the Euro-American West...

... claims Air traffic control Subterranean claims to natural resources Brazil natural resources in Indigenous communities and collective right to self determination Lakota Sioux Distributive justice Global luck egalitarianism Justice and boundaries Luck egalitarianism Resource curse Taxation...

... life the passage of the Sioux nations from freedom to dependency. In his youth the spirits of the Lakota had given him a magnificent vision, calling him to give aid and leadership to his people, and he felt he had failed in his appointed task. Yet his words of despair came at what, in retrospect...

... W Sparrow J stages of development Touchpoints Program Winnicott D adaptive coordinations biomarkers for adaptation and health virtue development Bandura Albert disengagement moral Heckman J J moral disengagement relational poverty Staub Erwin virtues Lakota Head Start development...

...Lakota has been claimed to lack structural devices by means of which arguments can be foregrounded, such as with passives. However, recent field data show that in addition to various backgrounding constructions, Lakota has a construction which functions very much like an English passive in which...

... with each other, at the same time upholding the integrity of individual traditions. The book illustrates each of these themes with explorations of specific native cultures including Lakota, Navajo, Apache, Koyukon, and Ojibwe. It demonstrates how Native American values provide an alternative metaphysics...

...This introductory chapter outlines the controversy surrounding the representation and remembrance of Wounded Knee. It presents two accounts: one from the Native American Lakota people, and one from the US Army and its supporters from the government. For the Lakota, Wounded Knee serves as the site...

...This chapter examines the events that led to the conflict at Wounded Knee. It first describes the journey of the Corps of Discovery into the northern Great Plains where the Lakota Nation was located in 1804. The tension began when the US government, under the helm of President Thomas Jefferson...

...This chapter delves deeper into the mission of the survivors of the Wounded Knee Massacre to change the dominant perception fabricated by the US government. It continues to describe the actions of Joseph Horn Cloud, who was successful in holding a dedication ceremony in honor of the Lakota People...

... and heirs, as well as $1,000 for Lakotas injured in the fighting. This sudden entrance of the dispute onto the national stage provided a platform for the Lakota survivors’ ongoing engagement with the politics of memory, centered on such words as “massacre” and “hostility.” The 1930s saw the survivors...

...This chapter synthesizes all of the important events that happened after the conflict at Wounded Knee where both the US government and the Lakota survivors tried to present their claims of what happened during the engagement. It also briefly chronicles the life of Dewey Beard, another survivor...

... Star—and observes that, today, the addiction treatment field lacks a vision of its own future. There is no “big, hairy, audacious goal.” This chapter calls for such a vision. addiction treatment Lakota Sioux Sitting Bull Tatanka Iyotanka Tatanka Iyotanka Sitting Bull vision statements Hazelden...