| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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*Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country*. By John W. W. Mann. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xxiii + 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $ 24.95; £18.95.)
In August 1805, the Corps of Discovery encountered Sacajawea's people, the Lemhi Shoshone. From that point onward federal authorities recognized the Lemhi as a distinct, sovereign tribal-nation living in the Salmon River Valley. Central to the ethnic identity of the Lemhi was (and is) land, and in chapter one Mann firmly establishes their relationship to their homeland, setting the stage for the historical and cultural changes detailed next. Chapter two chronicles Lemhi history from the arrival of Lewis and Clark to their 1907 removal to the Fort Hall reservation. Both chapters draw heavily on ethnogenetic theory to explain the emergence and changes in Lemhi Shoshone identity.	1
After establishing the historical context for the Lemhi Shoshone twentieth-century experience in the previous two chapters, chapter three details how they organized themselves politically on the Fort Hall reservation to seek unpaid annuities as compensation for removal. The annuity issue literally forced the Bureau of Indian Affairs to recognize the Lemhi as a distinct ethnic entity residing among the larger Shoshone-Bannock reservation population. However, their recognition as a culturally distinct ethnic minority did not result in full compensation. Instead, Bureau of Indian Affairs officials refused to recognize their ethnic sovereignty by dissolving their distinctiveness on the Fort Hall tribal rolls.	. . .

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