Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
March 2000
Abstract
This slim volume is essentially a caricature of an older genre of anthropological books about Indians and other colonial "others." The new "revised" edition adds precious little new material or insight to the inadequacies of the 1963 version. Feraca, a one-time US government employee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, has an inconsiderable sense of the complexities of Oglala or Lakota culture. He describes some personal observations of Lakota religious traditions at the surface level, but has no clue regarding the deeper meaning or significance of what he attempts to describe.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2000, p. 170. © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.