Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crises of Authority / Edition 1

by Loretta Fowler, Fred Eggan

Overview

The Northern Arapahoes of the Wind River Reservation contradict many of the generalizations made about political change among native plains people. Loretta Fowler explores how, in response to the realities of domination by Americans, the Arapahoes have avoided serious factional divisions and have succeeded in legitimizing new authority through the creation and use of effective political symbols.

Arapahoe Politics was the winner of the American Society for Ethnohistory's Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Award as best ethnohistorical book of 1982.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803268623
Publisher:	Nebraska
Publication date:	12/01/1986
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	375
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

Editorial Reviews

"This book clearly deserves to become a model for modern research in American Indian Studies. Without any waving of banners and shouting of slogans it leaps far ahead of earlier acculturation studies by shifting the focus to strategies of ethnic survival."—E. Adamson Hoebel, Plains Anthropologist

Plains Anthropologist - E. Adamson Hoebel

"This important, seminal work has been impressively researched and extremely well written. Fowler has effectively combined the fruits of intensive fieldwork with an eleven-year study of primary ethnohistorical documents."—Journal of American History

Journal of American History

"Destined to be a major study of a Plains Indian tribe."—Choice

Choice

"Scholars of the Northern Plains and the Arapahoe people will find this work of long-standing value. Historians and anthropologists, especially those who combine the historical with fieldwork, will undoubtedly use Fowler's book as a model for comparing similar works in the future."—Western Historical Quarterly

Western Historical Quarterly

"This book clearly deserves to become a model for modern research in American Indian Studies. Without any waving of banners and shouting of slogans it leaps far ahead of earlier acculturation studies by shifting the focus to strategies of ethnic survival."—E. Adamson Hoebel, Plains Anthropologist

— E. Adamson Hoebel

Plains Anthropologist