Oglala Women : Myth, Ritual, and Reality.

Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala women as inferior to men, and the Lakota myth th...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Powers, Marla N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Series:Women in culture and society.

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