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Canada and the United States

Sally J. Southwick. Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 204. Cloth $38.95, paper $18.95.
One of the difficult aspects of studying American history is placing rural communities into a national context for cultural themes. Sally J. Southwick attempts that integration in a tightly written case study that describes the evolution of a small town of 5,000 people whose existence derives from a Native American cultural site that is now a federally designated national monument administered by the National Park Service.	1
Pipestone, in the southwest corner of Minnesota, is adjacent to a unique American Indian quarry which is the source for catlinite, a soft red stone easy to carve and utilized for native pipe bowls. Southwick's book is a five-chapter micro study of the history of Pipestone, Minnesota, and local interest in and promotion of the historic quarry site, whose 640 acres were reserved by the Yankton Sioux in an 1858 treaty. For centuries catlinite pipe bowls had been integral to Great Plains trade, and for several tribes the pipestone quarry may be a sacred site, although actual prehistoric and historic native use of the quarry is deeply imbedded in regional myth and folklore and is unclear. Title to the section of prairie land spiraled to the U.S. Supreme Court prior to the 1928 ruling that tribes had quarrying rights but not ownership of the land. Thus, in a rare instance in U.S. history, the federal government specifically reserved an ongoing Native American cultural site.	. . .

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