We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance Contributor(s): Gage, Justin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806167254 ISBN-13: 9780806167251 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - 19th Century - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) |
Dewey: 970.004 |
LCCN: 2020019283 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.58 lbs) 376 pages |
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Publisher Description: In the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples, isolating them from one another and from the white populations coursing through the plains. We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us tells the story of how Native Americans resisted this effort by building vast intertribal networks of communication, threaded together by letter writing and off-reservation visiting. |