WARRIORS WITHOUT WEAPONS WARRIORS WITHOUT WEAPONS A Study of the
Society and Personality Development of the Pine Ridge Sioux Ey
GORDON MACGREGOR With the collaboration of ROYAL B. HASSRICK and
WILLIAM E. HENRY UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO . ILLINOIS
RESEARCH STAFF EE f I DIA. EDUCATION RESEARCH - t -, r ..., i,
--Qffce f f Indian. Affairs LLO D V- RMF. I. 7f, JOHN COLLIER,
Chairman R-Eiki T-H vr, HT K T WILLARD W. BEATTY RAIPH T LIR RENE
DHARNONCOURT JOSEPH X LAT-RA THOMPSON, C-ordinator SIOUX PROJECT
STAFF GORDON MACGREGOR, Supervisor ROYAL HASSRICK, Field Assistant
Dow PEARL CARNAL JOSEPH CAR RANG, M. D. FRANCES DAVIDSON, R. X.
GERALDINE D. DIAZ IMOGENE B. DOGEAGLE AUDREY GUTHRIE FRED HAMMERNIK
ADRIENNE HERSHEY JUNE LYMAN MARTIN MCNEIL, M. D. LIZZIE B. MESTETH
IRA NICHOLS FERN ROUILLARD THEODORE SADOCK, M. D. MARY SCHANANDORE
PAULINE WASHINGTON RICHARD WASHINGTON EVELYN WHIRLWIND HORSE Test
Analysts Rorschach ROYAL H ASS RICK Thematic Apperception adapted
WILLIAM E. HENRY Grace Arthur Performance ROBERT J. HAVIGHURST RHEA
R. HILKEVITCH WAYNE PRATT Goodenough Draw-a-Man ROBERT J.
HAVIGHURST MINNA KOROL INEZ PRATT Emotional Response ROBERT J.
HAVIGHURST IVA SCHMIDT JEAN HALL Moral Ideology ROBERT J.
HAVIGHURST JEANETTE MURSTINE ROMA K. McNiCKLE, Editor ADVISORY
COMMITTEE GJPIACE ARTHUR RUTH BENEDICT ALLISON DAVIS JOHN DOLLARS
FRED EGG AN ERIK HOUBURGER ERIKSON LAWRENCE FRANK A. IRVING
HALLOWELL BRUNO KLOPFER CLYDE KLUCKHOHN EUGENE LERNER KURT LEWIN
JEAN WALKER MACFARLANE DARCY MCNICKLE MARGARET MEAD SCUDDER MEKEEL
MORRIS OPLER ROBERT S. PLATT STANISLAUS SZUREK Deceased September
21, 1 944. FOREWORD f HE conviction of racial and religious
superiority which has characterized I thewhite man in his contact
with races of other colors is not uniquely a JL white mans
characteristic. Each Indian group as well as every other racial
unit around the world has thought of itself as the chosen people
and frequently has so designated itself in the tribal name with
which it refers to the k in-group. Therefore, in almost every
conflict the successful warriors considered that they were
dispossessing a less able, a less cultivated, a less worthy rival
and sometimes as a result of this attitude they destroyed their
adversaries or enslaved them, forcing an acceptance of the dominant
customs. Yet it is certain that never before white dominance in the
United States began were the many Indian groups subject to a
continuous suppression by a technologically superior alien race
suppression working, by intention, in one direction through
centuries. The results of such suppression in one group of Indians
are described in this volume. One of the major contributions of
democratic philosophy has been increased concern with the
well-being of the individual. The declaration of human rights which
characterized the democratic revolution both in Europe and in
America carried implications with regard to personal values such as
rarely before had entered into human planning. It is probably
natural that the extension of this concern about the effect on
human beings of gross and ruthless modifications of individual and
group life should be extended to a subject people considerably
later than to the members of the dominant society. To those of us
whose profes sions presuppose the importance of the individual and
the need for continuing knowledge of individual reactions to the
interplay of socialforces, it is difficult to justify the operation
of an agency like the Indian Service, whose major concern is
people, without the basic information about these people that
psychological and anthropological research alone can make
available. The basic research of which this report on the Sioux is
but one part, while long delayed, nevertheless marks a new and
important departure in our dealing with the Indians of the United
States. No single document reporting on a small seg ment of the
Indian people can of itself be, of great significance...
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