Doctoral Dissertation Research: "Land, Kinship, and Federal Policy: Ambivalent Identities"

9410504 Demallie这篇论文的改进研究是一个联邦印第安政策的一块-道斯法-对拉科塔苏族身份的影响人种学和人种历史学分析。 它考察了1912年从松岭印第安人保留地分离出来的南达科他州一个县的“纯种”和“白色”的当地社会类别。 本研究探讨了这种地方社会类别的建立和维持与联邦印第安人政策之间的联系。 此外，这是第一项特别关注Lakeland和非印第安人在该地区定居的研究，Lakeland是通过保留地制度被降级到该地区的，而非印第安人在该地区向非印第安人定居开放时定居。 本研究采用传统的人类学方法，参与观察和记录生活史的顾问在所有三个社会类别谁是一样老或比县本身。 再加上人类学的数据，用英语和拉科塔语写的历史和民族历史文件的检查将照亮正在进行的过程中涉及的维护社会类别在班尼特县。

9410504 Demallie This Dissertation Improvement research is an ethnographic and ethnohistorical analysis of the effects of one piece of federal Indian policy--The Dawes Act--on Lakota Sioux identity. It examines the local social categories of "fullblood," and "white" in a South Dakota county that seceded from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1912. This study explores the linkages between the creation and maintenance of such local social categories and federal Indian policies. Additionally, this is the first study to pay special attention to the settlement of the area by both Lakotas, who were relegated to the area through the reservation system, and non-Indians who homesteaded the area when it was opened to non-Indian settlement. This study employs traditional anthropological methods of participant-observation and the recording of life histories from consultants in all three social categories who are as old as or older than the county itself. Coupled with the anthropological data, the examination of historical and ethnohistorical documents written in both English and Lakota languages will illuminate ongoing processes involved in the maintenance of social categories in Bennett County.