The Modern Sioux: Social Systems and Reservation Culture

xv, 352 pp. "The eleven studies collected here, all but one previously unpublished and all devoted to a single American Indian group, the Dakotas, or Sioux, represent a fresh approach to the subject. More than a standard ethnographical treatment--although they touch upon the customary aspects of social organization such as economics, diet, religion, and political organization--the studies explore topics of current interest, for example, cultural identity, social adaptation, and personality formation."