title: Lakota health and healing.
abstract: This article examines the nature of Lakota health and healing in its traditional form, how the Lakota both adapted to and resisted western medicine, and the state of contemporary healthcare, traditional and western, on the Pine Ridge Reservation and among the Lakota people of South Dakota.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA. bucko@creighton.edu
authors.forename: Raymond A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Bucko
authors.forename: Stella
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iron Cloud
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D015438:Health Behavior; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American; D008019:Life Style; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D013023:South Dakota; D026443:Spiritual Therapies; D014481:United States; D016549:United States Indian Health Service