Drinking and sobriety among the Lakota Sioux / Beatrice Medicine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Medicine, Beatrice.

Series:

Contemporary Native American communities ; v. 20.

Contemporary Native American communities ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dakota Indians--Alcohol use.

Dakota Indians.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Great Plains.

Drinking of alcoholic beverages.

Alcoholism--Treatment--Great Plains.

Alcoholism.

Alcoholism--Treatment.

Great Plains.

Alcoholism--Great Plains--Prevention.

Physical Description:

vi, 155 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Altamira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2007]

Summary:

Where previous studies have focused primarily upon drinking styles among Indian populations, Beatrice Medicine develops an indigenous model for the analysis and control of alcohol abuse. This new ethnography of the Lakota Sioux (Standing Rock in North and South Dakota) examines patterns of alcohol consumption and strategies by individuals to attain a new lifestyle and achieve sobriety. Medicine describes how treatments are ineffective when researchers, policy makers, and health professionals do not use a tribal-specific approach to addiction. She offers an indigenous perspective and understanding that should lead to improved approaches to treatment in mental health and alcohol abuse. Her hook is essential for medical anthropologists. Native American studies researchers, and health professionals concerned with Native American health issues and alcohol abuse.

Contents:

"All Indians are drunks" : a pervasive myth

Uncorking the keg : beginnings of alcohol use among American Indians

The recent past : Minnewakan "magic water" : alcohol and the Lakota bands

A Siouan social system : Standing Rock Reservation

"Everyone drinks!" : drinking behavior among contemporary Lakota (Sioux) Indians

American Indian sobriety : an uncharted domain

Religious renaissance and the control of alcohol : the Lakota sun dance

Siouan sobriety patterns: "I was a better drunk than you were"

"I got tired of drinking" : interpretations of intents and continuities of Siouan sober states

Summary and conclusions : "there's a lot to drinking"

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-143) and index.

ISBN:

0759105707

0759105715

OCLC:

70062979

Publisher Number:

9780759105706

9780759105713