| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.3

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Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1954. By Paul C. Rosier. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. xviii + 346 pp. $65; £43.50.)

In this important new work, Paul Rosier looks deeply into the dynamics of the Blackfeet community as the group adapted to reservation life in roughly the first half of the twentieth century. By 1928, the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council (BTBC) had surfaced as the primary governing body of the tribe and gave it a structure and a voice for expressing the will of the Blackfeet people. In the early 1930s, the Blackfeet were instrumental in helping design Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's Indian Reorganization Act (IRA). The tribal sovereignty allowed in the IRA gave the Blackfeet powerful new tools to move increasingly toward the greater political self-control that they had always wanted, and the IRA's revolving fund credit program allowed the BTBC to undertake economic development through tribal enterprises. . . .

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