Rosebud Reservation Research Articles

Measured Acculturation and MMPI-168 Performance of Native American Adults

To test the hypothesis that acculturation influences MMPI performance of Native Americans, a 32-item instrument was developed to measure five components of acculturation. The MMPI-168 and the acculturation instrument were administered to 69 Rosebud Sioux. Significant elevations occurred on F and Scales 4, 6, 8, and 9. Intercorrelations among the acculturation subscales suggested a common dimension underlying social, language, and blood quantum, with values and education/occupation being relatively independent. The social, values, and language subscales were significantly related to validity scales L and F. A preponderance of significant correlations were obtained between values, language, and education/ occupation, and MMPI-168 clinical Scales 2, 4, 7, 8, and 0. These results suggest that caution be used in interpreting the MMPI profiles of Native Americans.

The Lakhota Giveaway:

Reciprocal gift-giving among Lakhota of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation is examined as a tradition promoting social alliance, interdependence. and the redistribution of wealth. Ceremonial Giveaways provide a context for the distribution of goods to non-kinsmen, a practice which extends kin-like obligations and benefits beyond the immediate. or extended family. Gift-giving is viewed as a mechanism of social control in that it prevents the uneven accumulation of wealth and directs negative sanction toward those reluctant to share their resources. Reciprocal exchange plays a fundamental role in reinforcing the moral value of generosity, a local system of insurance essential to modern reservation living.

The Music of Gordon Binkerd

Klaus George Roy, in a profile of Gordon Binkerd's Harvard mentor, Walter Piston, spoke of that composer's musical ‘mental health’, of his work as ‘sane and un-neurotic; he does not hand on to us his problems, but his solutions’. Although these are scarcely qualities one acquires by classroom study, they have proved equally characteristic of Binkerd himself. He recalls that the knowledge of Bach fugues gained under Piston's tutelage was ‘the most decisive single factor in my preparation as a composer’. Binkerd came to Harvard as a candidate for the Ph.D. in musicology, directly after the end of World War II and naval service in the Pacific theatre. Earlier, he had worked with Bernard Rogers, ‘that orchestral genius’, at Eastman, and with Russell Danburg and Gail Kubik at Dakota Wesleyan University. He was born 22 May 1916 on the Ponca Indian Reservation in Lynch, Nebraska, a few miles below the South Dakota border. Grandparents on both sides of his family had homesteaded in the Sand Hills during the 1860's, and Binkerd's parents lived in various small towns in Nebraska before moving to the Rose Bud Sioux Reservation at Gregory, South Dakota.

Cultural criteria and determinats for acceptance of modern medicine among the Teton Dakota, Rosebud Indian reservation, South Dakota

Cultural criteria and determinats for acceptance of modern medicine among the Teton Dakota, Rosebud Indian reservation, South Dakota

Cultural Criteria and Determinants for Acceptance of Modern Medical Theory and Practice Among the Teton Dakota of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Cultural Criteria and Determinants for Acceptance of Modern Medical Theory and Practice Among the Teton Dakota of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Late‐Wisconsin Pollen and Seed Analysis from the Nebraska Sandhills

Between two lrge dunes near the northern edge of the grass—covered Nebraska Sandhills on the Rosebud Indian Reservation is an alluviated lowland containing more than 6 m of organic sand and silt. Pollen and seed analyses of the lowest 120 cm of sediment imply that a boreal forest with spruce grew around the site 12,600 c14 years ago and was succeeded abruptly by grassland, with perhaps more pine than exists today (as Pinus ponderosa) in the nearby Niobrara River Valley and the Pine Ridge escarpment of northwestern Nebraska. Pollen analyses of surface samples were used to determine the modern pollen rain at different distances from the modern pine forests of the western plains. The presence of spruce fossils at the Rosebud site, along with similar finds in northeastern South Dakota and southern Minnesota, implies a late—Wisconsin boreal forest over much of the present prairie region. The major disjunction of Picea glauca in the Black Hills, 200 km northwest of the site and 700 km from from the spruce forest of Manitoba, may thus be explained as a relic of a semi—continuous distribution during late—Wisconsin time.

An Approach to Income Improvement on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation

Although the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has discharged the federal government's responsibility to Indians for generations by extending services such as health, education, and welfare beyond those normally provided to non-Indian citizens, chronic poverty still haunts many reservation people. These low-income reservations are unique in America because many exist as "pockets of poverty" in relatively high income areas like the Northern Great Plains.

Wartime Employment and Cultural Adjustments of the Rosebud Sioux

In 1942, the Dakota Sioux made an unprecedented exodus to off-reservation work due to cessation of reservation relief and the attraction of high wages in military construction work and agricultural labor. The Indians have not been slow to share in the quickening of economic activity that has come to the Great Plains after a decade of drought, depression and poverty, and to contribute their services in war production. To understand the adjustments the Sioux are making and to suggest where and how the Indian Service might function in this new situation, a study was made among the Sioux of Rosebud Reservation.

The Birds of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota

The Birds of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Animals, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Rose-Bud Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Animals, Reptiles and Amphibians of the Rose-Bud Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Notes on the Flora of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota

T HE Rosebud Indian reservation is situated in South Dakota, south of Big White river, and extends from about the middle south line of the state east to the Rosebud lands opened for settlement in 1904. It is bounded on the north by Big White river, on the east by Gregory county (the land opened up for settlement), on the south by Nebraska, and on the west by the Pine Ridge Indian reservation. The soil is sandy Loup Fork Tertiary, Miocene clays or Cretaceous black shales as one proceeds northeast across the reservation from its southwest corner. In the eastern part of this area and in the valley regions the Minnesota and east Nebraska flora prevails; in the medium elevated regions, that of the high plains; and on the high points and in the western part of the reservation, that of the Rocky Mountains. Many Canadian species are also met with. The country in early spring to the middle of the summer is a rose-flower region; hence the name, Rosebud. The Leguminos&e are also prominent flowers, but, though more numerous in species than the Rosacepe, are less conspicuous. In the summer the Leguminosve and the Evening Primrose family vie with each other. The predominating flowers of the fall season are those of the Compositae. The grass family is represented by numerous species, which are themselves very variable. The trees are usually low and spreading, and are usually found only along the streams. The following list of identified plants are the result of the author's observations during the spring, summer and fall of 1904. The work was carried on as time would permit, and, consequently, contains only a small part of the plants of the region. The books used in identifying the plants were Wood's Eastern Botany, Bessey's Botany for High Schools and Colleges, Gray's Lessons and Manual of Botany, and Coulter's Manual of Rocky Mountain Botany. The date in parentheses is that on which the first bloom of that respective plant appeared. Ranunculaceae: Anemone carolinana Walt. Numerous.