Lakota Women: Family Traditions

It is a world tradition to destroy culture and even more fascinating to me because everyone talks about preservation or in history form goods, but all in one way or another seek to alter each bit of society. Even those who state they are the most excepting or friendly. For the Lakota it was and could be said still is the white christian. Which shouldnt be that big of a shocker since it has been the white Christian impacting most change. The point of family traditions that most stuck out to me in "Lakota Women" is chapter three. Mary Crow Dog compares what happened to Idian children with what happen to victims of the Nazi's (28). A very senestative subject for many but a statement filled with a lot of truth. Mary then goes on to reference how traditionally children are cared for with love and surrounded by love while they are allowed to grow (29). When the whites take the children this is all changed. The children are taught how to grow with no love surrounded by steel. The family traditions of how a child should be raised and cared for is gone.