Drinking and sobriety among the Lakota Sioux
By: Beatrice Medicine.
Series: Contemporary Native American communities -- 20; Contemporary Native American communities -- v. 20.
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780759105706; 9780759105713
Subjects: Dakota Indians -- Alcohol use; Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Great Plains; Alcoholism -- Great Plains -- Treatment; Alcoholism -- Great Plains -- Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-143) and index.
Table of contents: title: "All Indians are drunks" : a pervasive myth; title: Uncorking the keg : beginnings of alcohol use among American Indians; title: The recent past : Minnewakan "magic water" : alcohol and the Lakota bands; title: A Siouan social system : Standing Rock Reservation; title: "Everyone drinks!" : drinking behavior among contemporary Lakota (Sioux) Indians; title: American Indian sobriety : an uncharted domain; title: Religious renaissance and the control of alcohol : the Lakota sun dance; title: Siouan sobriety patterns: "I was a better drunk than you were"; title: "I got tired of drinking" : interpretations of intents and continuities of Siouan sober states; title: Summary and conclusions : "there's a lot to drinking"; title: References.