Power and Progress on the Prairie: Governing People on Rosebud Reservation

by Thomas Biolsi

A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota

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. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, white homesteaders arrived in the area and became the majority population. Today, the population of Rosebud...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517900832
• ISBN13: 9781517900830
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"