Uniting the Tribes
Native American reservations on the Northern Plains were designed like islands, intended to prevent contact or communication between various Native peoples. For this reason, they seem unlikely sources for a sense of pan-Indian community in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
But as Frank Rzeczkowski shows, the flexible nature of tribalism as it already existed on the Plains subverted...
Native American reservations on the Northern Plains were designed like islands, intended to prevent contact or communication between various Native peoples. For this reason, they seem unlikely sources for a sense of pan-Indian community in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
But as Frank Rzeczkowski shows, the flexible nature of tribalism as it already existed on the Plains subverted...
