ABSTRACT
HAU, METAKUYEAYASI. THE GREETING I HAVE JUST GIVEN is A LAKOTA PHRASE meaning, “Hello, my relatives.” Now, I’m not a Lakota, and I’m not particularly fluent in the Lakota language, but I ask those of you who are to bear with me for a moment while I explore the meaning of the greeting because I think it is an important point of departure for our topic: the relationship, real and potential, existing between the marxist tradition on the one hand, and that of indigenous peoples such as American Indians on the other.
