We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance

by Justin Gage

In the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples, isolating them from one another and from the white populations coursing through the plains. We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us tells the story of how Native Americans resisted this effort by building vast intertribal networks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806186364
• ISBN13: 9780806186368
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"