| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

Ordeal of Change: The Southern Utes and Their Neighbors. By Frances Leon Quintana. Afterword by Richard O. Clemmer. (Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2004. xv + 157 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $72.00, cloth; $24.95 paper.)

The cover of Ordeal of Change hails it as the "early writings of renowned anthropologist Frances Leon Quintana," who tells us that the book grew out of notes she took on BIA documents when she was working on her insightful 1974 work on Hispanic-Ute relations, Los Primeros Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute Frontier (South Bend, IN). Sifting through the Southern Ute files, Quintana describes how the BIA implemented the provisions of the Dawes Act, including allotment (and the accompanying irrigation battles), political and economic restructuring, and the establishment of schools and other agency services. She concludes by reiterating the 1877 government assimilationist goals and noting that most were not fully met by 1926, because the policies were ill conceived and the Utes resisted them, preserving their core ethnic identity. Quintana's conclusions are generally sound, but they tell us nothing new.

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