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Beatrice Medicine was a teacher and anthropologist, who taught at the California State University at Northridge as well as over thirty universities throughout the United States and Canada. She was descended from the Sihasapa and Minneconjou bands of the Lakota Nation.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1 "All Indians are Drunks": A Pervasive Myth
Chapter 3 2 Uncorking the Keg: Beginnings of Alcohol Use among American Indians
Chapter 4 3 The Recent Past: Minnewakan "Magic Water"-Alcohol and the Lakota Bands
Chapter 5 4 A Siouan Social System: Standing Rock Reservation
Chapter 6 5 "Everyone Drinks!": Drinking Behavior among Contemporary Lakota (Sioux) Indians
Chapter 7 6 American Indian Sobriety: An Uncharted Domain
Chapter 8 7 Religious Renaissance and the Control of Alcohol: The Lakota Sun Dance
Chapter 9 8 Siouan Sobriety Patterns: "I Was a Better Drunk Than You Were..."
Chapter 10 9 "I Got Tired of Drinking. . .": Interpretations of Intents and Continuities of Siouan Sober States
Chapter 11 10 Summary and Conclusions: "There's a Lot to Drinking..."