Women anthropologists -- United States, Women anthropologists, Indigenous women, Beatrice Medicine, Lakota, Indigenous Women -- North America 

"This prodigious volume represents a landmark assemblage of the significant work of the legendary anthropologist and Native American intellectual Beatrice Medicine. For half a century, Dr. Medicine has defied stereotypes, racism, and sexism in her life and work while combating the reductive, patronizing views of Native Americans perpetuated by mainstream anthropologists. This retrospective collection reflects her unswerving commitment to furthering Native Americans' ability to speak for themselves and deal with the problems of contemporary life. "Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining "Native"" includes Medicine's clear-eyed views of assimilation, bilingual education, and the adaptive strategies by which Native Americans have conserved and preserved their ancestral languages. Her discussions of sex roles in contemporary Native American societies encompass homosexual orientation among males and females and the "warrior woman" role among Plains Indians as one of several culturally accepted positions according power and prestige to women. The volume also includes Medicine's thoughtful assessments of kinship and family structures, alcoholism and sobriety, the activism implicit in the religious ritual of the Lakota Sioux Sun Dance, and the ceremonial uses of Lakota star quilts. "The Native American is possibly the least understood ethnic minority in contemporary American society," Medicine observes. Her decades of deliberate, generous, dedicated work have done much to reveal the workings of Native culture while illuminating the effects of racism and oppression on Indian families, kinship units, and social and cultural practices." -- Amazon.ca. 

xxvi, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. 

Contents:
Foreword / Ted Garner --
Foreword / Faye V. Harrison --
Biographical Essay: Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining "Native" --
"Speaking Indian": Parameters of Language Use among American Indians --
Bilingual Education and Public Policy: The Cases of the American Indian --
Contemporary Cultural Revisitation: Bilingual and Bicultural Education --
"The Schooling Process": Some Lakota (Sioux) Views --
Self-Direction in Sioux Education --
My Elders Tell Me --
Higher Education: A New Arena for Native Americans --
The Interaction of Culture and Sex Roles in the Schools --
Native American (Indian) Women: A Call for Research --
Changing Native American Roles in an Urban Context and Changing Native American Sex Roles in an Urban Context --
"Warrior Women": Sex Role Alternatives for Plains Indian Women --
Indian Women: Tribal Identity as Status Quo --
The Role of American Indian Women in Cultural Continuity and Transition --
North American Indigenous Women and Cultural Domination --
Carrying the Culture: American Indian and Alaska Native Women Workers --
Lakota Star Quilts: Commodity, Ceremony, and Economic Development --
Native American Resistance to Integration: Contemporary Confrontations and Religious Revitalization --
American Indian Women: Spirituality and Status --
American Indian Women: Mental Health Issues Which Relate to Drug Abuse --
New Roads to Coping: Siouan Sobriety --
Alcohol and Aborigines: The North American Perspective --
The Changing Dakota Family and the Stresses Therein --
American Indian Family: Cultural Change and Adaptive Strategies --
Ella C. Deloria: The Emic Voice --
Anthropology as the Indian's Image-Maker --
The Native American --
Oral History as Truth: Validity in Recent Court Cases Involving Natie Americans --
Finders Keepers --
American Indians and Anthropologists: Issues of History, Empowerment, and Application.

Includes index.