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Vine Deloria Jr, intelectual y activista Lakota de la tribu Oglala, con profunda ironía hace una crítica de las relaciones y representaciones mantenidas por la sociedad dominante WASP y el Estado de USA, y también por las antropologías extractivistas (Con un excelente capitulo dedicado a los antropólogos) con los pueblos originarios (y sistemáticamente marginalizados) de aquellas tierras, en esta su obra más conocida, que sería un parteaguas para el American Indian Movement y el movimiento Red Power, y la lucha indígena por la autonomía y el territorio en el norte de este continente.

North American Archaeologist, 2005

ABC-CLIO, American Public University online library. …, 2008

The Journal of American History, 2019

Idaho). The army's chief duty, before and after the Civil War, was to guard transportation routes, wagon roads before 1865, and railroads after that. This duty led to the awkward shapes of military departments, which were often dictated by the availability of water for draft animals and later for steam engines. Water was likewise a requisite for Indian tribes-for people, horses, and game animals. Competition for water and grass was a frequent source of conflict between ethnic groups in the West. These conflicts form the focus of The Commanders. The exploits of lower ranking officers, Mackenzie and Custer among them, take backstage to the performance of lesser known but higher ranking men who helped to orchestrate the series of conflicts known as the Indian Wars. The episodic violence Utley records, though, was only one facet of Indian-white relations during the post-Civil War years. For instance, the army fed Indians in addition to fighting them. When Indian agencies ran out of rations to issue, the commissary at a nearby army post would often make up the deficit, with higher headquarters in Washington, D.C., reconciling the accounts. General Pope believed that to hold Indians on a reservation without food was a crime against humanity. During the last three years of his tenure in the Department of the Missouri, Pope also devoted about half his cavalry force to driving the "Boomer" invaders from the Oklahoma District (roughly, today's greater Oklahoma City), where white settlement was forbidden under the terms of a treaty. This might have been a better book if Utley had concentrated on the lesser known incidents of peaceful interaction between Indians and the army, with which the history of the postbellum West abounds, instead of persisting in detailing the record of hostilities that the post-Civil War generation took part in as junior officers.

1998

Few western figures have received the attention George Armstrong Custer has. Since his death in 1876, his name and fame have alternately been attacked and defended by writers. Using a variety of primary and secondary sources, Louis Kraft\u27s recent monograph falls into the latter camp. As Volume Five of the Custer Trail Series, Custer and the Cheyennes incorporates alternating points-of-view of both whites and natives, using extensive quotes to let the actors speak for themselves. In this manner, Kraft presents a chronological narrative of Custer\u27s frontier beginnings on the Southern Plains of Kansas, Texas, and Indian Territory (Oklahoma) against the Tsistsistas (Southern Cheyennes). In addition to containing informative footnotes and bibliography, the book is handsomely designed with photos, art work, and maps. The price, however, may deter all but the most ardent Custerophiles. Kraft centers his discussion on General Philip Sheridan\u27s use of total warfare against Indian na...