| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1 | The History Cooperative

*Riding Buffaloes and Broncos: Rodeo and Native Traditions in the Northern Great Plains.* By Allison Fuss Mellis. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xvi + 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
Allison Fuss Mellis became interested in Indian rodeo while serving in the early 1990s as a second grade teacher in Busby, Montana, on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. This book represents her research in the area of what she considers to be an ongoing cultural revitalization phenomenon.	1
Like its cover photograph and title, the 266-page volume she has written is somewhat misleading—buffalo riding has never been a major event in Indian rodeos or elsewhere, and her five chronological chapters (from 1880 to the present) omit major parts of the big picture of livestock ranching on reservations of the northern Great Plains. For example, the competition of white livestock ranchers for Indian grazing lands is not explained, and the major cultural tragedy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs's (BIA) enforced slaughter of Indian horses for meat, after 1900, to free up grazing land for use by cattle, is not addressed at all.	. . .

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