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Being Lakota: Identity and Tradition on Pine Ridge Reservation

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Being Lakota explores up to date Lakota identity and tradition through the life-story narratives of Melda and Lupe Trejo. Melda Trejo, née Red Bear (1939–), is an Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Reservation, whilst Lupe Trejo (1938–99) is Mexican and a long-time resident at Pine Ridge. In their forty years together, the Trejos raised eleven children, supported themselves as migrant workers, and celebrated their lives and cultural heritage.
 
Conversations between this Lakota/Mexican couple and scholar Larissa Petrillo convey key aspects of the couple’s on a regular basis life: what it means to be an Indian and Lakota; how they negotiate their different ethnic identities; their feelings about contemporary concerns with appropriating Lakota religious practices and beliefs; and the tenets of Lakota spirituality that shape their perceptions and actions. These issues are highlighted as they talk about their experiences putting in place a Sundance ceremony. In the late 1980s they started holding a Sundance at the Red Bear circle of relatives’s land near Allen, South Dakota, and the ceremony was once dedicated to Lupe after his death.
 
Being Lakota deepens our understanding of brand new Lakota life and affords a memorable glimpse of the choices and paths taken by individuals in a Native community. It also serves to explore new approaches to collaborative ethnography, with reflections on learning to work well in a Native community.

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