| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3 | The History Cooperative

*The Power of the Land: Identity, Ethnicity, and Class among the Oglala Lakota.* By Paul Robertson. (New York: Routledge, 2002. xv + 281 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00.)
This volume presents a history of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home of the Oglala Lakotas. The narrative begins with the creation of the reservation in 1879, and continues to the present, with particular emphasis on the repercussions of the acceptance of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) in 1934.	1
An insightful chapter entitled "Roots of Ethnic Difference" analyzes the development of the most salient social difference on the reservation, the distinction between full bloods and mixed bloods. The origins of this division predate the reservation and are most importantly expressed in terms of ethnicity and lifestyle, a cultural difference that Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) policy transformed into a racial one by imposition of the classification by blood quantum. The economic and political opposition between these two social groups has been manipulated by government agents throughout the reservation's history.	. . .

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