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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887-1934. By Katherine M. B. Osburn. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. xiv, 165 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-8263-1862-2. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8263-1863-0.)

Before European contact the Southern Ute people ranged from the Rocky Mountains through much of the Great Basin area of Nevada and Utah. They subsisted on game and wild plants, and highly mobile bands moved in seasonal migrations across clearly defined territories. Extended families were the basic social structure. Katherine M. B. Osburn explores the ways in which agents of the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA) attempted to transform these people into the sedentary, agricultural, nuclear-family households that were the hallmark of full assimilation into American society. Her focus is on the lives of Ute women. . . .

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