Life's Journey—Zuya: Oral Teachings from Rosebud

In particular, this book records his learning about the richness of the Lakota culture and its ceremonial traditions and the intricacies of the language, learning he gained from listening to a broad array of interpreters (medicine men). Throughout the volume, White Hat the linguist engages in a persistent process of challenging many of the conventional categories of cognition that anthropologists, missionaries, government functionaries, journalists, and others have made second nature in any interpretive discussion of Native traditions.