| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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Book Review

The Road to Lame Deer. By Jerry Mader. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xvi + 194 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes. $25.00, £18.95.)

"They Treated Us Just Like Indians": The Worlds of Bennett County, South Dakota. By Paula L. Wagoner. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xiv + 155 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00, £37.95, cloth; $19.95, £15.50, paper.)

Personal journeys are frequent subjects. These intimate stories from Lame Deer, Montana, and Bennett County, South Dakota, combine such journeys—one taken by a photographer and writer and another by an anthropologist with different goals. In 1971, photographer and writer Jerry Mader began his personal quest to understand a small section of present day Northern Cheyenne culture. Twenty-two years later, anthropologist Paula Wagoner began her regional field work among Lakota and rural non-Indians of Bennett County, South Dakota. The dissimilarities begin to fade as the reader hears the voices from two northern plains communities. In the process, each author uncovers the enduring persistence of identity in these complex societies.

After a chance meeting with Northern Cheyenne elder Belle Highwalking in Missoula, Montana, for several years Mader made monthly trips from western Montana east to Lame Deer. He traveled with fellow Missoulian Tom Weist, who was collaborating with tribal elders on a reservation writing project. Working through Weist's contacts, Mader gained the opportunity to photograph elders for a reservation exhibit of tribal leaders. Lame Deer's past and present tightened its hold on Mader. He attempted to preserve in print and by camera what he saw and experienced during his personal journey.

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