What is a family

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What is a family?

• Think and write down what a family is to you.

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Family is a complex concept

• Entails
• 1. Structure of kin group
• 2. Functions
• a. roles
• b. rights and responsibilities
• 3. Sentimental and emotional aspects
• 4. Legal definitions
• 5. Durability

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Redemptive Process

• The way that individuals fulfill their
  obligations in relation to the moral imperatives
  of their community. It guides their judgments
  about human worth and dignity, and of their
  assumptions about power

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Issues addressed-multicultural

• Cultural miscommunication
• Invidious judgments
• explanations for different family forms
• Judicial consequences
• Moral choices

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Groups studied

• Lakota Ella Deloria, Speaking of Indians
• African American Beverly Green, African
  American Families and
• Margaret L. Usdansky, For many blacks, family
  tree long splintered
• Families in your discussion section

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Unit Goals

• You will be able to define and correctly apply
  key concepts that we use to understand different
  family forms

Cross cousins
lineage
Bilateral descent
patrilocality
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Deloria faced ethnocentrism

• Addresses missionaries and other white service
  providers

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Carlisle (PA) Indian Boarding School1879-1918Lak
ota children http//www.wordsasweapons.com/indians
chool.htm
Photo by J.N. Choate, "Wounded Yellow Robe, Henry
Standing Bear, Timber Yellow Robe Taken 6 Months
After Entrance to School," n.d., albumen print
mounted on card. The photo is from the
Waidner-Spahr Library, Special Collections,
Dickinson College
Photo by J.N. Choate, "Wounded Yellow Robe, Henry
Standing Bear, Timber Yellow Robe Taken Upon
Their Arrival in Carlisle," n.d., albumen print
mounted on card. The photo is from the
Waidner-Spahr Library, Special Collections,
Dickinson College
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Role of Indian Boarding Schools

• To acculturate Indian youth into American society

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Role of Indian Boarding Schools

• To acculturate Indian youth into American society
• Acculturate to transmit the characteristics of
  one culture to members of another culture

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Role of Indian Boarding Schools

• To acculturate Indian youth into American society
• Acculturate to transmit the characteristics of
  one culture to members of another culture
• Enculturate to transmit cultural forms from one
  generation to another.

Cheyenne woman named Woxie Haury in ceremonial
dress, and, in wedding portrait with husband. Two
studio portraits on left she poses with her hair
down, in a beaded fringed dress, necklace, and
beaded moccasins. On right she wears a
western-style wedding dress (full length skirt,
boned bodice, hair pinned up under a lace veil)
and stands beside a young man in white
tie.Photograph Woxie HauryCollection Estelle
Reel Repository Eastern Washington State Hist.
Soc. http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/er
drich/boarding/gallery.htm
Jim Crow Dog Family 1891
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This unit has some complex ideas
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Ella Deloria 1881-1971
Ella Deloria, A Scheme of Life that Worked
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Ancestral Lands of the Lakota
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Contemporary reservations
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Brule Lakota Camp, 1891
"The Villa Brule." A Brule Lakota camp at Pine
Ridge reservation in Dakota Territory, 1891.
Photograph by J. C. H. Grabill. Library of
Congress
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Dakota family

• All Dakota kin to one another
• Defined who belonged and who was a stranger

Maxine Stoll Everything Is a Circle
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Basic code

• One must obey kinship rules
• One must be a good relative
• Note that people who could not be linked by blood
  or marriage could be given a place social
  kinship

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Lakota kinship
Parallel cousins
Cross cousins
Euro-American kinship
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Lakota Families

• Mothers brothers uncle
• Fathers sisters aunt

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Social kinshp

• Friends and neighbors
• Means of making kin of outsiders

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Why so complex?

• Courtesy Always address a person by their kin
  term
• Height of rudeness to not use proper kin term
  Only to animals might you speak so rudely
• Creates a channel of trust and reciprocity
• Almost the same term used to address people and
  God.
• Non-kin might be deceitful
• like Iktomi

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Prescribed attitude toward others

• Act foolishly towards Mother and Father
• Be serious and protective toward sons and
  daughters
• Avoidance son-in-law with mother-in-law
• daughter-in-law with father-in-law
• post-puberty brothers and sisters
• Joking brother- and sister-in-law
• For more, see http//www.airc.org/living/tiyospaye
  .html
• Deloria Life in Tipi and Camp Circle
  http//www.sicc.sk.ca/heritage/ethnography/dnl/com
  munity/life_in_tipi.html
• http//mreid.com/lakota/tiyki.htm

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Basis of dispute resolution

• Kin intervene
• Call upon aggrieved parties to act properly as
  kin to one another
• Odakota a state or condition of peace

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Lakota Kinship

• Call a person by kin term, not given name (rude)
• Obligatory respect (override impulsive behaviors)
• Created peaceful relationships
• Created trustworthy relationships
• Distinguished a cultured being from an animal or
  a child

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Dysfunctional families

• Assumes a specific family form as functional

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Tuesday - READ

• In textbook

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Lakota FamiliesDoris Little Eagle with
grandchildren