Ruling Pine Ridge

"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 federal government's direct colonial rule during the pre-1934 era to the indirect colonialism ushered in by the controversial Indian Reorganization Act (IRA)." "Reinhardt then examines the period of 1968-1973, showing that although the IRA governing system was well established by…