Deadliest Enemies: Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation

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Racial tension between Native American and white people on and near Indian reservations is an ongoing problem in america. Way back to 1886, the Supreme Court said that “on account of local sick feeling, the people of america where [Indian tribes] are found are ceaselessly their deadliest enemies.” This book examines the history of troubled relations on and around Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota during the last three decades and asks why Lakota Indians and whites living there became hostile to each other. Thomas Biolsi’s important study traces the origins of racial tension between Native Americans and whites to federal laws themselves, showing how the courts have created opposing political interests along race lines.

Drawing on local archival research and ethnographic fieldwork on Rosebud Reservation, Biolsi argues that the court’s definitions of legal rights―both constitutional and treaty rights―make solutions to Indian-white problems difficult. Even if much of his argument rests on his analysis of legal cases, the central theoretical concern of the book is the discourse rooted in legal texts and how it applies to on a regular basis social practices.

This nuanced and powerful study sheds much-needed light on why there are such difficulties between Native Americans and whites in South Dakota and in the remainder of america.


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