Review of Drinking and Sobriety among the Lakota Sioux. By Beatrice Medicine.

Authors

Teresa Milbrodt, Bowling Green State University - Main Campus

Date of this Version

2008

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Research, Vol. 18, No.1, 2008. © 2008 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Abstract

Depicting alcohol use among Lakotas as both complex and culturally-specific, Beatrice Medicine's book is an important addition to Native American and Great Plains studies. Medicine emphasizes that to comprehend its social, psychological, and economic dimensions fully, one must understand Lakota customs and two hundred years of history.