Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 519
Author(s):  
Kathleen Pickering ◽  
Akim D. Reinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Pine Ridge ◽  
Oglala Lakota ◽  
Wounded Knee

Indigenous cryptocurrency: Affective capitalism and rhetorics of sovereignty

First Monday ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Tekobbe ◽  
John Carter McKnight
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Finance System ◽  
Pine Ridge ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Oglala Lakota ◽  
History Of

Financial technologies embody and shape notions of social, as well as financial, worth. New digital ‘alt-finance’ systems, including the blockchain technology underlying Bitcoin and similar ‘cryptocurrencies,’ are no exception: technology, rhetoric, imagined users and non-users, and a long history of sociotechnical, political, and cultural relations are all elements in a dynamic assemblage with wide-ranging consequences. This paper examines the rise and fall of one alt-finance system: MazaCoin, a Bitcoin variant intended to benefit the Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The story of MazaCoin is one of an attempt to unite two apparently divergent sociotechnical assemblages: (1) a libertarian, elite technology of cryptocurrency, and (2) a richly traditional indigenous community with a deep desire for cultural survivance, bound up in a precarious economy left behind in the wake of more than a century of genocide.

scholarly journals From Wounded Knee to Sacred Circles: Oglala Lakota Ethos as “Haunt” and “Wound”

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Forced Displacement ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
Oglala Lakota ◽  
History Of ◽  
Wounded Knee

Oglala Lakota ethos manifests a pre-Socratic/Heideggerian variant of ethos: ethos as “haunt”. Within this alternative to the Aristotelian ethos-as-character, Oglala ethos marks out the “dwelling place” of the Oglala Lakota people. That is, the Oglala Lakota ground their cultural- and self-identity in the land: their ethology, in effect, expresses an ecology. Thus, an Oglala Lakotan ethos cannot be understood apart from its nation’s understanding of the natural world—of its primacy and sacredness. A further aspect of the Oglala Lakotan ethos rests in the nation’s history of conflict with EuroAmericans. Through military conflict, forced displacement, and material/economic exploitation of reservation lands, an Oglala Lakota ethos bears within itself a woundedness that continues to this day. Only through an understanding of ethos-as-haunt, of cultural trauma or woundedness, and of the ways of healing can Oglala Lakota ethos be fully appreciated.

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