| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Book Review

Reconfiguring the Reservation: The Nez Perces, Jicarilla Apaches, and the Dawes Act. By Emily Greenwald. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. x + 186 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Emily Greenwald's Reconfiguring the Reservation: The Nez Perces, Jicarilla Apaches, and the Dawes Act is a first book by a young scholar. Her study, enhanced by an array of maps, figures, and tables, discusses the relationship between non-Indians and Indian tribes and focuses on the experience of the Nez Perces and the Jicarrilla Apaches under the 1887 General Allotment (also known as the Dawes Act because it was named after its author, Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts). This act intended to "civilize" and assimilate Indians into mainstream America by disassembling their collectively controlled reservations into privately owned allotments of agricultural land, on which they presumably would farm and adopt "American" (read "non-Indian") economic and cultural values. . . .

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