The Power of the Land

Identity, Ethnicity, and Class Among the Oglala Lakota

By:

Paul Robertson

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Hardback

Series:

Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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This book is the first in-depth look at the past 120 years of struggle over the Oglala Lakota land base on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. An unholy alliance between the federal government and regional economic interests has led to progressive disenfranchisement of the majority of the Oglala people, and to the development of an ethnically distinct class of Oglala who control the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation land base. The small group of so-called "mixed-blood" Oglala has come to control the grazing land on the reservation, and to exercise a disproportionate control of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Government. Conflicts growing out of that situation are central to understanding of the reservation situation.

Author Biography:

Paul Robertson has lived on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation since 1980. He is the current Chair of the Human Development and Social Justice Department at Oglala Lakota College.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 2001

Author

Paul Robertson

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

300

Series

Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780815335917

Product ID

4076223

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