To 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 Men s Association to share its members knowledge about Lakota thought and ritual. Both groups stated that the purpose of the historic theological discussions was to come to a better understanding. Though the groups ended their formal discussions after...