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

by Thomas Biolsi

Book Overview

Racial tension between Native American and white people on and near Indian reservations is an ongoing problem in the United States. As far back as 1886, the Supreme Court said that "because of local ill feeling, the people of the United States where Indian tribes] are found are often their deadliest enemies." This book examines the history of troubled relations on and around Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota over the last three decades and asks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520220781
• ISBN13: 9780520220782
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"