All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual justice governments

governments

Against an unflinching backdrop of 1990s reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas

and the outcome of the American Revolution

Joel Waters

allowing their voices to emerge from the page

All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual justice governmentsIn All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas' religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the "ontological turn," particularly the dual notions of interiority soul spirit and physicality body and an extended notion of personhood, as proposed by A. Irving Hallowell and Philippe Descola, which includes humans as well as nonhumans. All My Relatives demonstrates how