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Power and progress on the prairie : governing people on Rosebud Reservation
- Title
- Power and progress on the prairie : governing people on Rosebud Reservation / Thomas Biolsi.
- Author
- Biolsi, Thomas, 1952-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 340 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The Rosebud Country, comprising four counties in rural South Dakota, was first established as the Rosebud Indian Reservation in 1889 to settle the Sicangu Lakota. Power and Progress on the Prairie traces how a variety of governmental actors, including public officials, bureaucrats, and experts in civil society, invented and applied ideas about modernity and progress to the people and the land."--Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Governing people on Rosebud Reservation
- Subjects
- Liberalism
- South Dakota
- Todd County (S.D.) > Politics and government
- Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.) > History
- Liberalism > United States > History > 20th century > Case studies
- New Deal (1933-1939)
- Politics and government
- History
- 1900-1999
- Case studies
- South Dakota > Economic conditions > 20th century
- New Deal, 1933-1939 > South Dakota
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation
- United States
- South Dakota > Rosebud Indian Reservation
- Economic history
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota > Politics and government
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota > Government relations
- South Dakota > Todd County
- Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.) > Politics and government
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The birth of liberalism on the prairie, or how not to govern too much -- Discipline and governmentality: civilizing Indians and making farmers progressive -- New Deal practices: how not to govern too little -- Making New Deal subjects -- Planning who shall die so others may live: biopower and Cold War national security -- Voting rights, or how a regulatory assemblage governs -- Conclusion: when stories about the countryside have power.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-3228
- ISBN
- 9781517900823
- 1517900824
- 9781517900830
- 1517900832
- LCCN
- 2017056062
- OCLC
- 1007309603
- Author
- Biolsi, Thomas, 1952- author.
- Title
- Power and progress on the prairie : governing people on Rosebud Reservation / Thomas Biolsi.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-3228