| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee. By Jeffrey Ostler. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii, 387 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-79346-7. Paper, $21.99, ISBN 0521-60590-3.)
Professor Jeffrey Ostler of the University of Oregon has produced this history of the Sioux as part of the Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History. This series offers new approaches to Native American history with a focus on presenting the Indian experience within the broader context of American history. In addition, the author tied the Sioux story with that of U.S. colonialism. He distinguished colonization from colonialism. Colonization is a process of building settlements that occurred during U.S. expansion primarily during the nineteenth century. Colonization becomes colonialism when this expansion "involves conquest, displacement and rule over" native groups (p. 2).	1
In 1963 Robert M. Utley published The Last Days of the Sioux Nation. In that fine book Utley covered much of the same ground as Ostler, but primarily from the white military perspective. Utley's history culminated with the Wounded Knee bloodbath in 1890 in which the Sioux suffered a military and psychological conquest that presaged the end of the Sioux nation.	. . .

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