FACW_HIST_2011_23284293_Means_Jeffrey.pdf (4.31 MB)
Indians Shall Do Things in common
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posted on 2021-11-15, 21:41 authored by Jeffrey D. MeansMeans discusses the Oglala Lakota identity and cattle-raising on the Pine Ridge Reservation. For the Oglala Lakota, cattle represented an opportunity to maintain traditional culture and create a subsistence economy while adapting to reservation life. During the early reservation years, the Oglala herded their cattle communally, and all animals were branded with the Pine Ridge brand, the flying O. However, different ideas about the reservation's economic future lead to inequities between full-bloods and mixed-bloods that created deep and lasting divisions within Oglala culture. Bad Heart Bull, an Oglala who from 1890 to 1913 depicted an earlier period of tribal life, drew this Oglala cowboy and a steer bearing the flying O brand.
History
ISSN
0026-9891ISO
engLanguage
EnglishPublisher
University of Wyoming. LibrariesJournal title
Montana; The Magazine of Western HistoryCollection
Department of History and American StudiesDepartment
- Library Sciences - LIBS