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By Larissa Petrillo

Being Lakota explores modern Lakota identification and culture in the course of the life-story narratives of Melda and Lupe Trejo. Melda Trejo, née pink endure (1939–), is an Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Reservation, whereas Lupe Trejo (1938–99) is Mexican and a long-time resident at Pine Ridge. of their 40 years jointly, the Trejos raised 11 young ones, supported themselves as migrant staff, and celebrated their lives and cultural heritage.
 
Conversations among this Lakota/Mexican couple and student Larissa Petrillo express key features of the couple’s daily life: what it potential to be an Indian and Lakota; how they negotiate their various ethnic identities; their emotions approximately contemporary issues with appropriating Lakota non secular practices and ideology; and the tenets of Lakota spirituality that form their perceptions and activities. those concerns are highlighted as they speak about their stories constructing a Sundance rite. within the past due Eighties they all started conserving a Sundance at the crimson undergo family’s land close to Allen, South Dakota, and the rite was once devoted to Lupe after his death.
 
Being Lakota deepens our knowing of contemporary Lakota existence and presents a memorable glimpse of the alternatives and paths taken by way of members in a local group. It additionally serves to discover new methods to collaborative ethnography, with reflections on studying to paintings good in a local community.

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