ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. It outlines three distinct categorical areas - about the book in general, about the case study of Lakota Oyate, and frames of analysis. It includes: the Lakota Oyate case study, Native Nations and American Indians, and the methodological approach. It distinguishes between extended conclusions about the Lakota case, and those about other cases in the western hemisphere. It suggests that all three ideal-types of the social resistance to dominant policies, can lead to any of the ideal-types of cultural survival, and therefore can serve as strategies for cultural retention, protection and sustenance of Lakota traditions in an environment that requires internecine and internalized systems of domination. The Lakota movement from tiyospaye to religious leaders engaged in Ghost Dance struggles of 1890, continued through the 1990's with Tribal Council 'bureaucrats' as 'interpreters of social reality'.
