Leading Health Challenges Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota Oglala Lakota Sioux

This essay is a response to Kristin Solli’s contribution in this book, Global Perspectives on the United States. Drawing on comparisons with experiences vis-à-vis Native Americans on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Condry reminds readers of the multiple levels of “Americanization,” a point Solli makes quite effectively. Condry argues that key to Solli’s essay is that the forces of “Americanization” and “Europeanization” can be understood only by attending to the specific localities of interest and desire, a reminder that local particulars make all the difference in interpreting the power of culture, not as a thing, but as something invoked in an effort to do something. It is clear in Solli’s essay that “Americanization” is a process that is not in the hands of Americans and that it is operated by others who are caught in their own complicated circumstances. Solli’s essay reminds us of the importance of fieldwork among a community and an openness to seeing what “American culture” means to them, in their worlds.

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Engaging Acrimony: Performing Lakota Basketball in South Dakota

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.2016-0177 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 58-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alan Klein

Keyword(s):

South Dakota ◽

Social Order ◽

The State ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Cultural Resistance ◽

Indian Reservation ◽

Pine Ridge ◽

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ◽

The Social ◽

Oglala Lakota

The Oglala Lakota basketball teams of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are one of the most competitive programs in the state of South Dakota. They are, however, competing for state honors in one of the most racist climates in the country. My ethnographic study looks at how the Lakota navigate these perilous waters. Using Turner’s view of performance; and Scott’s theories of cultural resistance, I have characterized Lakota basketball as ‘engaged acrimony.’ Teams representing subaltern communities may use sport to carve out spheres of resistance that force those socially more power communities to grudgingly acknowledge the momentary reversal of the social order. Additionally, in these symbolic victories the Lakota craft narratives of victory that fuel cultural pride and further their resolve to withstand the racist climate they live in.

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Preamble to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota (1936)

Welcome to the Oglala Nation ◽

10.2307/j.ctt1d9nhjk.21 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 83-83

Keyword(s):

South Dakota ◽

Pine Ridge ◽

Pine Ridge Reservation

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ASSESSING GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY ON THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION IN SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA

10.1130/abs/2016am-284471 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Lilly Jones ◽

Keyword(s):

South Dakota ◽

Groundwater Vulnerability ◽

Pine Ridge ◽

Pine Ridge Reservation

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Perceptions Of Lakota Native American Students Taking Online Business Course At Oglala Lakota College (OLC)

American Journal of Business Education (AJBE) ◽

10.19030/ajbe.v4i10.6063 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (10) ◽

pp. 43-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ahmed Al-Asfour ◽

Carol Bryant

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Online Courses ◽

Online Course ◽

Native American Students ◽

Pine Ridge ◽

Oglala Lakota ◽

American Students ◽

Business Course ◽

Online Business ◽

Pine Ridge Reservation

This research examined the perceptions of Lakota Native American students taking a Business online course at the Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The study was conducted in the fall of 2010 and spring of 2011. The themes found in this study were flexibility, transportation, communication, and technical support. Furthermore, the study found some of the advantages for students taking online courses as well as some obstacles encountered by students on the reservation.

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Wiwanyag Wachipi

Body and Religion ◽

10.1558/bar.33076 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 48-69

Author(s):

Fritz Detwiler

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Gift Exchange ◽

Lived Religion ◽

Religious Ritual ◽

Pine Ridge ◽

Ontological Categories ◽

Ritual Process ◽

Pine Ridge Reservation

Graham Harvey’s reconceptualisation of religion emphasises the relational world of indigenous peoples. His suggestion that religion revolves around negotiating with ‘our neighbours’ is particularly relevant to Native American ritual processes insofar as he extends ‘neighbours’ to other-species persons. Further, by emphasising ‘lived religion’, Harvey turns our attention to the significance of embodied religion as it expresses itself in ceremonial performances. Harvey’s approach is enriched by Ronald L. Grimes’ notion of the way in which indigenous rituals take us into the deep world of other-species communities through a gift exchange economy that promotes the wellbeing of everyone in the neighbourhood. The present discussion demonstrates the applicability of both Harvey’s and Grimes’ approaches to indigenous religious ritual processes by focusing on James R. Walker’s account of Oglala Sun Dancing. Walker constructs a fourstage ritual process from information he gathered while working as a physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914. The entire process, from the declaration of the first candidates who announce their intention to make bodily sacrifices to the culmination of the ritual process in the last four days where the flesh sacrifices are made many months later, centres on re-establishing and promoting harmonious relations among the Oglala and between the Oglala and their other-species neighbours within the Sacred Hoop. The indigenous methodological approach interprets the process through Oglala cosmological and ontological categories and establishes the significance of Harvey’s approach to religion and Grimes’ approach to ritual in understanding embodied and lived religion.

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