The Indian adolescent: Psychosocial tasks of the Plains Indian of western Oklahoma.

The dilemma of the Indian adolescent, who has moved from a nurturance by and among his own people, into a schooling under the authority of the white man, and must now find an identity somewhere between two worlds in which he cannot be whole is described.

Abstract

Book reviewed in this article: Adolescence is generally viewed as a time of psychosocial turmoil. For the Native American Indian, this time of life brings forth problems of greater complexity than those of the adolescent of the dominant culture. This paper describes the dilemma of the Indian adolescent, who has moved from a nurturance by and among his own people, into a schooling under the authority of the white man, and must now find an identity somewhere between two worlds in which he cannot be whole.