Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930

Finalist for the 2022 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reconstruction came to a close. Though, along with Euro-Americans, Black settlers appropriated the land of Native Americans, sometimes even contributing to ongoing violence against Indigenous people, this migration often defied the goals of settler states in the American West.

In Black Montana Anthony W. Wood explores the entangle...