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Sac, 230

Sacco, Cathy, 263

Safer, Jane, 134

Sahlins, Marshall, 28 , 298n15

Said, Edward W.: Culture and Imperialism , 290n40

Sand Creek Massacre, 8 , 16 , 31 , 56 , 233 , 238 -241;

rupture of relations between Anglos and Native Americans, 241 , 242 , 244

Sandoval, David J., 119 , 252

Santa Anna, 210

Santa Fe Trail, 18 ;

attempts to pacify by U.S. government, 223 , 224 -225

Santa Fe Trail Association, 265

Sarpy & Fraeb, 96 , 203

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 132

Schama, Simon: Landscape and Memory , 26

Schilz, Thomas F., 147 , 150

Schlesier, Karl, 64 , 65 , 66 , 72 , 77

Scoyen, Eivind, 259

Secret societies, 215 -216

Sennett, Richard: Flesh and Stone , 27

Sentiment, 49 , 68 , 137 , 152 , 289 n 19, 291n 13

Sepulveda, Juan Gines de, 107

Service, Elman, 298n 15

Shadlow, Ann, 254 , 276 -277

Shamanism: and psychotropic drug use, 140 ;

in Siberian, 71 -72;

and tobacco use, 139

Sheridan, Philip Henry, 8 , 243

Sheridan Lake, 8

Shoshoni, 9 , 14 ;

Treaty of Fort Laramie, 227 -228

Simpson, George, 177

Sioux, 14 ;

Brulé, 229 ;

intertribal conflict of 1850s, 230 ;

Miniconjous, 228 -229;

Oglala, 280 -281;

Treaty of Fort Laramie, 227 -228;

Wounded Knee, 31

Six Civilized Tribes, 236

Skinner, Quentin, 167

Slater, Milo H., 149

Smith, Jack, 240

Smith, Peg-leg, 102

"Smoking over," 110 , 112 , 129 , 138

Sociology: and colonialism, 51 -52

Socrates, 38

Soulava , 136

Soule, Silas S., 242

South, Stanley, 182

Southwestern Plains: Civil War in, 233 -234;

cultural transformation of ("world formation"), 1 , 16 -22, 221 , 247 ;

defined, 285n 2;

effect of Bent's Old Fort on balance of power, 7 , 15 ;

fictive kinship as basis for trade in, 14 , 21 -22, 28 , 30 -31, 35 -36, 109 -111, 155 -159, 204 -207;

formation of high-grid, low-group society, 22 ;

gold rush, 231 -232;

landscape, 1 ;

panopticism and secret societies, 217 -218;

prehistoric trade networks, 102 -103;

role of cultural hegemony in annexation of, 249 -250;

role of value and belief systems in annexation, 251See also New Mexico Territory

Spanish: attempt to increase fur trade with Plains Indians, 113 -114;

introduction of horse to plains, 9 ;

motivations for occupation of New World, 105 -107;

resistance to American encroachment in Southwest, 11 -13, 112 -113

Spier, Leslie, 64 , 66

Spradley, James, 70

Stanford, Dennis, 65

St. Vrain, Ceran, 7 , 16 , 28 , 92 , 161 , 172 ;

acquisition of Mexican citizenship, 119 , 160 , 200 ;

activities after dissolution of Bent & St. Vrain, 126 ;

and Bernard Pratte and Company, 199 -200;

dissolution of Bent & St. Vrain, 93 , 125 ;

entry into partnership with Charles Bent, 202 ;

family history, 141 , 198 -199;

marriages,

St. Vrain, Ceran, (continued)

203 ;

portrait of, 201 ;

ties to prominent traders, 202 -203;

as U.S. Consul at Santa Fe, 202

St. Vrain, Felicite, 172

St. Vrain, Jacques Marcellin Ceran de Hault de Lassus de, 199

St. Vrain, Marcellin, 94

St. Vrain Creek, 94

Sublette, Bill, 102

Sub-proletariat, 54 -55

Summer solstice rituals, 81

Sumner, William Vos, 230

Sun Dance, 64 -66, 138 , 279 ;

altar, 74 , 76 ;

camp, 76 ;

center pole (medicine pole), 25 -26, 65 , 68 , 71 , 73 -74;

Cheyenne version, 66 -70, 292n 14;

and counting coup, 72 -73;

ethnographic treatments of, 66 -70;

individualistic orientation, 65 ;

liminality in, 81 -82;

phenomenological analysis of, 71 -76;

photograph of, 75 ;

as response to alienation of modernity, 78 -82;

ritual self-torture, 68 , 79 ;

similarities to Siberian shamanistic practices, 71 -72