Hydrogeology of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota

10.3133/ha357 ◽  
1971 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Dakota ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Pine Ridge ◽  
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

Engaging Acrimony: Performing Lakota Basketball in South Dakota

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Klein
Keyword(s):  
South Dakota ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Pine Ridge ◽  
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Oglala Lakota

The Oglala Lakota basketball teams of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are one of the most competitive programs in the state of South Dakota. They are, however, competing for state honors in one of the most racist climates in the country. My ethnographic study looks at how the Lakota navigate these perilous waters. Using Turner’s view of performance; and Scott’s theories of cultural resistance, I have characterized Lakota basketball as ‘engaged acrimony.’ Teams representing subaltern communities may use sport to carve out spheres of resistance that force those socially more power communities to grudgingly acknowledge the momentary reversal of the social order. Additionally, in these symbolic victories the Lakota craft narratives of victory that fuel cultural pride and further their resolve to withstand the racist climate they live in.

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.

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