Ruling Pine Ridge : Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee

by Reinhardt, Akim D.

• ISBN13: 9780896726567
• ISBN10: 0896726568
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr

Summary

Winner, Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
A Note on Terminology	p. xxv
A Note on Methodology and Sources	p. xxvii
1934-1946
Introduction: Hopscotching the Past	p. 3
Indirect Colonialism: The Indian Reorganization Act	p. 19
"Any Reasonable Request ...": Office of Indian Affairs Political Power During the Early Oglala Sioux Tribal Council Era	p. 42
"Detrimental For The Best Interests Of The Sioux People": The First Ten Years of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council	p. 77
1970-1973
The Next Wilson: The Transition from Gerald One Feather to Dick Wilson	p. 113
Full Force Gale: Oglala Politics and the American Indian Movement	p. 139
"That Great Symbolic Act": The Siege of Wounded Knee as a Grassroots Political Protest	p. 164
Conclusion: Connecting the Past	p. 189
Preambles of the Constitution of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, 1921 and 1936	p. 217
Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council, 1936	p. 218
Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council, April 1972	p. 219
Presidents of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, 1936-2006	p. 220
Notes	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 259
Index	p. 267
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