Deadliest Enemies: Law and Race Relations on and Off Rosebud Reservation

by Thomas Biolsi

Book Overview

Many people living far away from Indian reservations express sympathy for the poverty and misery experienced by Native Americans, yet, Thomas Biolsi argues, the problems faced by Native Americans are the results of white privilege. In Deadliest Enemies, Biolsi connects the origins of racial tension between Indians and non-Indians on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota to federal laws, showing how the courts have created opposing political interests...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816649715
• ISBN13: 9780816649716
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"