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Power and progress on the prairie : governing people on Rosebud Reservation / Thomas Biolsi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biolsi, Thomas, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota--Politics and government.
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota.
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota--Government relations.
- Economic conditions.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Liberalism.
- History.
- Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Politics and government.
- Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.).
- Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)--History.
- Liberalism--United States--History--20th century--Case studies.
- New Deal, 1933-1939--South Dakota.
- Todd County (S.D.)--Politics and government.
- Todd County (S.D.).
- South Dakota--Economic conditions--20th century.
- South Dakota.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 340 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Governing people on Rosebud Reservation
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "The Rosebud Country, comprising four counties in rural South Dakota, was first established as the Rosebud Indian Reservation in 1889 to settle the Sicangu Lakota. Power and Progress on the Prairie traces how a variety of governmental actors, including public officials, bureaucrats, and experts in civil society, invented and applied ideas about modernity and progress to the people and the land."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The birth of liberalism on the prairie, or how not to govern too much
- Discipline and governmentality: civilizing Indians and making farmers progressive
- New Deal practices: how not to govern too little
- Making New Deal subjects
- Planning who shall die so others may live: biopower and Cold War national security
- Voting rights, or how a regulatory assemblage governs
- Conclusion: when stories about the countryside have power.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Biolsi, Thomas, 1952- Power and progress on the prairie.
- ISBN:
- 9781517900823
- 1517900824
- 9781517900830
- 1517900832
- OCLC:
- 1007309603
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