The Pursuit of Family

A History of Dakota and Lakota Family and Kinship on the Standing Rock Reservation,1794–2022

Thomas Grillot (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

378 Seiten

2026
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4483-3 (ISBN)

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In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual efforts that made survival possible on Standing Rock, one of the most understudied reservations despite being one of the best-known Native locations in the United States – Sitting Bull died there in 1890, and a protest camp organized there against the Dakota Access pipeline made international news in 2016. Yet this is a book not about famous people or events but about ordinary people confronted with a deceptively simple question: How can we be a family on the reservation? Integrating archival material, oral history, and fieldwork, Grillot tells the history of dozens of reservation-based Dakota and Lakota families from the beginning of the reservation era to today.

The Pursuit of Family reveals how the Dakotas and Lakotas, tied by a common language and way of life, developed under the pressures of settler colonialism and shifted formations of kinship across time and space. It is a story of resistance, negotiation, and adaptation.

Thomas Grillot is a research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research. He is the author of First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

Becoming Indians on the River
Founders and Heirs
The Names of Blood
Arrangements on Trial
Real Relatives
Local Knowledge
Family Life in the Home
Eating Together
The Emerging Family

Conclusion
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2026
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
Zusatzinfo	5 illus., 10 photographs, 1 map, 5 tables, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-4483-4 / 1496244834
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-4483-3 / 9781496244833
Zustand	Neuware