"They Treated Us Just Like Indians"
Subtitle: The Worlds of Bennett County, South Dakota (Studies in the Anthropology of North Ame)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780803248007
Subjects: Modern fiction; Multicultural studies; Sociology; Native American Sociology; Race And Ethnic Relations; Teton Indians; Social Science; Social conditions; South Dakota; Discrimination & Racism; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science / Native American Studies; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Bennett County; Bennett County (S.D.); Legal status, laws, etc; Race relations
Description: Nearly a century ago Bennett County, South Dakota was carved out of Pine Ridge Reservation and opened to white settlers. Today Bennett County sits awkwardly between the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux Reservations, with nearly one-third of its land classified as "Indian Country" and the rest considered by many Pine Ridge Lakotas to still belong to the reservation. The county is home to a dynamic population, divided by the residents into three groups"whites," "fullbloods," and "mixedbloods." Tensions between the three groups lurk admid the quiet harmony of Bennett County's everyday rural life and emerge in moments of community crisis. Anthropologist Paula L. Wagoner tells the story of Bennett County, using snapshots of community events and crises, past and present, to reveal the complexity of race relations and identities there. [back cover].