| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

*The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee*. By Jeffrey Ostler. (Cambridge, ENG: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 387 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $65.00, cloth; $21.99, paper.)
Do we really need another history of the western Sioux in the nineteenth century? The answer is yes—if it is as sophisticated, freshly conceived, and deeply researched as Jeffrey Ostler's new book. He brings to the familiar stories a broader contextual analysis than his predecessors and an inclination toward fresh reinterpretation. Readers will not always agree with Ostler's conclusions, but they should appreciate his determination to widen the analytical lens and to revisit an exhaustive number of secondary and primary sources.	1
Ostler argues that the central theme of nineteenth-century Lakota history is resistance to an imperialistic United States bent on conquest, displacement, and rule over Indian peoples. Although Americans prefer not to see themselves as imperialists or colonialists, from the perspective of Native peoples, those labels fit perfectly. Most twenty-first-century scholars of Indian history agree. Lakota efforts to survive—physically, spiritually, culturally, and politically—this onslaught, then, becomes the focus here. He concludes the Lakota succeeded, but at great cost to their freedom, political autonomy, and land holdings. Joining other tribal histories of recent vintage, Ostler acknowledges the persistence of Lakota life, but unlike others, he does not understate how much they lost in the process.	. . .

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