Wakinyan is an excellent overview of Lakota religious thought and
practice, introducing readers to its essential components. Through
finely detailed descriptions of rituals and various types of
religious figures, Stephen E. Feraca explains the significance of
such practices as the Sun Dance, sweat lodge ritual, vision quest,
Yuwipi ritual, and peyote use. He also discusses the significance
of herbs and religious artifacts and objects and explains the roles
and responsibilities of medicine men and other religious
practitioners. First written as a report for the Department of the
Interior in 1963, Wakinyan has long been recognized as a classic
study of Lakota religion. This edition retains most of the original
text, with its first-rate ethnographic descriptions of religious
practices. The author's new endnotes bring the reader up to date on
changes in Lakota religion during the last three decades. Stephen
E. Feraca worked for the Department of the Interior for a quarter
of a century before retiring in 1985. He is the author of Why Don't
They Give Them Guns? The Great American Indian Myth.
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