Welcome to the Oglala Nation : a documentary reader in Oglala Lakota political history / edited by Akim D. Reinhardt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reinhardt, Akim D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oglala Indians--History.

Oglala Indians.

Oglala Indians--Politics and government--Sources.

Oglala Indians--Government relations--Sources.

Oglala Indians--History--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Popular culture largely perceives the tragedy atWounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. The Dawes Act of 1887 and the reservation system dramatically changed daily life and political dynamics, particularly for the Oglala Lakotas. As Akim D. Reinhardt demonstrates in this volume, however, the twentieth century continued to be politically dynamic. Even today, as life continues for the Oglalas on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, politics remain an integral component of the Lakota past and future. Reinhardt charts the political history of the Oglala Lakota people from the fifteenth century to the present with this edited collection of primary documents, a historical narrative, and a contemporary bibliographic essay. Throughout the twentieth century, residents on Pine Ridge and other reservations confronted, resisted, and adapted to the continuing effects of U.S. colonialism. During the modern reservation era, reservation councils, grassroots and national political movements, courtroom victories and losses, and cultural battles have shaped indigenous populations. Both a documentary reader and a Lakota history, Welcome to the Oglala Nation is an indispensable volume on Lakota politics.

Contents:

""7. Second Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)""""8. Breaking Up the Great Sioux Reservation (1889)""; ""9. Breaking Up Pine Ridge Reservation and Organizing Bennett County (1910)""; ""10. Preamble to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Oglala Tribal Council (1921)""; ""11. John Collier's Plains Congress, Rapid City, South Dakota (1934)""; ""12. The Indian Reorganization Act (1934)""; ""13. Preamble to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota (1936)""; ""14. Final Meeting of the Oglala Tribal Council (1936)""

""15. Oglala Sioux Tribal Council Resolution No. 1 (1936)""""16. Meetings of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council (1936)""; ""17. Christianity and Politics on Pine Ridge Reservation (1936- 1937)""; ""18. Initial Ordinances and Resolutions of Oglala Sioux Tribal Council (1937)""; ""19. Early Ordinances and Resolutions of Oglala Sioux Tribal Council (1938)""; ""20. Oglala Sioux Tribe Bans Display of"Uncivilized Practices" (1938)""; ""21. Office of Indian Affairs Monitors the Cutting of Timber (1940)""; ""22. Office of Indian Affairs Curtails Oglala Sioux Tribal Authority (1942)""

""23. Letters of Frank Ecoffey (1942)""""24. Office of Indian Affairs Officials Suggest Forcing Pine Ridge Oglalas to Contribute to War Effort (1943)""; ""25. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Restricts Tribal Government Membership (1943)""; ""26. Tribal Council Terminates the Tribal Buffalo Herd (1944)""; ""27. Letter Granting Mr. and Mrs. Fast Horse Permission to Leave Pine Ridge Reservation (1945)""; ""28. Resolution to Remove Pine Ridge Superintendent W. O. Roberts (1945)""; ""29. Tribal Council Authorizes a Delegation to Washington DC (1946)""

""30. Porcupine District Council Demands a "White Man"as Farm Agent (1946)""""31. Congress Authorizes Compensation for Gunnery Range Land Seizures (1956)""; ""32. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Demands Greater Bureaucratic Efficiency (1960)""; ""33. Edison Ward Interviews South Dakota State Attorney Robert Maule (1964)""; ""34. Tribal President Johnson Holy Rock Interviewed (1967)""; ""35. Former Tribal Council Member Thomas Conroy Interviewed (1967)""; ""36. Future Tribal President Gerald One Feather Interviewed (1967)""; ""37. Oglala Sioux Tribe Bill of Rights (1968)""

""38. Interior Department Certifies Pine Ridge Elections (1968)""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803284340

0803284349

9780803284364

0803284365

OCLC:

914715232