ABSTRACT
The Teton Dakota, like many others Plains Indians of North America, depended for their food, clothing, and shelter on the buffalo and other animals they hunted. Except for the communal buffalo hunt, the technology of the Dakota pointed toward complete individualism. Property among the Dakota consisted of horses which were stolen from the enemy, war bonnets, weapons, pipes, pouches, wearing apparel-mocassins, robes, leggings-robes for the tepee, the tepee, parfleches, cooking utensils, and the tools necessary to make and decorate the skins. The social structure may be thought of as a series of circles within circles, each one complete, each like the other, varying only in the size of the circumference. From a survey of the economic and the social structure it has been shown that certain techniques are essential for men and women in order to be able to exist.
