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Author Biolsi, Thomas, 1952- author.

Title Power and progress on the prairie : governing people on Rosebud Reservation / Thomas Biolsi
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 341 pages)
Contents The birth of liberalism on the prairie, or how not to govern too much -- Discipline and governmentality: civilizing Indians and making farmers progressive -- New Deal practices: how not to govern too little -- Making New Deal subjects -- Planning who shall die so others may live: biopower and Cold War national security -- Voting rights, or how a regulatory assemblage governs -- Conclusion: when stories about the countryside have power
Summary "The Rosebud Country, comprising four counties in rural South Dakota, was first established as the Rosebud Indian Reservation in 1889 to settle the Sicangu Lakota. Power and Progress on the Prairie traces how a variety of governmental actors, including public officials, bureaucrats, and experts in civil society, invented and applied ideas about modernity and progress to the people and the land."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota -- Politics and government
Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota -- Government relations
Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- South Dakota
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
New Deal, 1933-1939
Economic history.
Liberalism.
Politics and government.
SUBJECT Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Politics and government
Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- History
Todd County (S.D.) -- Politics and government
South Dakota -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Subject South Dakota.
South Dakota -- Rosebud Indian Reservation.
South Dakota -- Todd County.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018013952
ISBN 9781452956275
1452956278
1517900824
9781517900823
9781517900830
1517900832
Other Titles Governing people on Rosebud Reservation