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

by Akim D. Reinhardt

Book Overview

Incorporating previously overlooked materials, including tribal council records, oral histories, and reservation newspapers, Ruling Pine Ridge explores the political history of South Dakota's Oglala Lakota reservation during the mid-twentieth century. Akim D. Reinhardt examines the reservation's transition from the direct colonialism of the pre-1934 era to the indirect colonial policies of the controversial Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726568
• ISBN13: 9780896726567
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"