| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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"Deadliest Enemies": Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation. By Thomas Biolsi. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv, 240 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-22078-1.)

Nineteenth-century commentators were given to the observation that the Indians' position in American society and law was anomalous because their tribal status as "domestic dependent nations" was contradictory. Reformers saw a panacea in the elimination of tribes, reservations, and distinct native cultures through a policy of land allotment that would facilitate rapid assimilation. This was effected with the passage into law of the General Allotment (or Dawes) Act in 1887. But the Indian New Deal of the 1930s reversed that federal policy and opened the way to tribal incorporation, the protection of the remaining reservation land base, and the encouragement of native cultures. The net effect was that the assimilation process, already well under way on some reservations, was abruptly halted, creating a new, anomalous situation, this time for Indians and non-Indians alike caught midstream by shifting policies. In addition, the government's flirtation with termination in the 1950s and subsequent reaffirmation of the principle of self-determination exacerbated the situation by revisiting both earlier policies in quick succession and in a much more politicized climate. "Deadliest Enemies" is a case study in what has happened on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. . . .

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