Not without our consent : Lakota resistance to termination, 1950-59 / Edward Charles Valandra ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valandra, Edward Charles, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lakota Indians--Legal status, laws, etc.

Lakota Indians.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--South Dakota.

Indians of North America.

Indian termination policy--South Dakota--History--20th century.

Indian termination policy.

Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota--Legal status, laws, etc.

Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a 1953 effort to end the authority of local Native American governments, Congress passed Public Law 83-280. Allowing states to apply their criminal and civil laws to Native American country, the law provided an unparalleled opportunity for the state of South Dakota to crush burgeoning Lakota nationalism.Edward Valandra's Not Without Our Consent documents the tenacious and formidable Lakota resistance to attempts at applying this law. In unprecedented depth, it follows their struggle through the 1950s when, against all odds, their resistance succeeded in the amendment of PL 83-280 to include Native consent as a prerequisite to state jurisdiction. The various House and Senate bills discussed in the manuscript are reproduced in five appendices.

Contents:

U.S. termination policy, 1945-53

Lakota termination-ready status : Zimmerman applied

The1958 Lakota referenda.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-277) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-04412-9

9786613044129

0-252-09270-8

OCLC:

1058935027