To Come to a Better UnderstandingTo Come to a Better Understanding analyzes the cultural encounters of the medicine men and clergy meetings held on Rosebud Reservation in St. Francis, South Dakota, from 1973 through 1978. Organized by Father Stolzman, a Catholic priest studying Lakota religious practice, the meetings fit the goal of the recently formed Medicine Mens Association to share its members knowledge about Lakota thought and ritual. Both groups stated that the purpose of the