Lakota society

By Walker, J. R. (James R.), b. 1849.

Subjects: Oglala Indians, Social life and customs, Indians of North America, Indians of north america, west (u.s.)

Description: Publisher description: As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the primary accounts of Walker's informants and his syntheses dealing with the organization of camps and bands, kinship systems, beliefs, ceremonies, hunting, warfare, and methods of measuring time.