{"product_id":"uniting-the-tribes-the-rise-and-fall-of-panindian-community-on-the-crow-reservation-9780700618514","title":"Uniting the Tribes: The Rise and Fall of Pan-Indian Community on the Crow Reservation","description":"\u003cp\u003eNative 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 these goals and enabled the emergence of a collective \"Indian\" identity even amidst the restrictiveness of reservation life. Rather than dividing people  tribalism on the Northern Plains actually served to bring Indians of diverse origins together.  Tracing the development of pan-Indian identity among once-warring peoples  Rzeczkowski seeks to shift scholars attention from cities and boarding schools to the reservations themselves. Mining letters  oral histories  and official documentsincluding the testimony of native leaders like Plenty Coups and Young Man Afraid of His Horseshe examines Indian communities on the Northern Plains from 1800 to 1925. Focusing on the Crow  he unravels the intricate connections that linked them to neighboring peoples and examines how they reshaped their understandings of themselves and each other in response to the steady encroachment of American colonialism.  Rzeczkowski examines Crow interactions with the Blackfeet and Lakota prior to the 1880s  then reveals the continued vitality of intertribal contact and the covertand sometimes overtpolitical dimensions of \"visiting\" between Crows and others during the reservation era. He finds the community that existed on the Crow Reservation at the beginning of the twentieth century to be more deeply diverse and heterogeneous than those often described in tribal histories: a multiethnic community including not just Crows of mixed descent who preserved their ties with other tribes  but also other Indians who found at Crow a comfortable environment or a place of refuge. This inclusiveness prevailed until tribal leaders and OIA officials tightened the rules on who could live ator be consideredCrow.  Reflecting the latest trends in scholarship on Native Americans  Rzeczkowski brings nuance to the concept of tribalism as long understood by scholars  showing that this fluidity among the tribes continued into the early years of the reservation system. Uniting the Tribes is a groundbreaking work that will change the way we understand tribal development  early reservation life  and pan-Indian identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960414068789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0700618511","price":81.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780700618514.jpg?v=1788286687","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/uniting-the-tribes-the-rise-and-fall-of-panindian-community-on-the-crow-reservation-9780700618514","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}