Power and Progress on the Prairie: Governing People on Rosebud Reservation

364 Pages·2018·8.287 MB·English

by  Thomas Biolsi

Power and Progress
on the Prairie
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Power and Progress
on the Prairie
Governing People on Rosebud Reservation
Thomas Biolsi
university of minnesota press
minneapolis • london
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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the generous
assistance provided for the publication of this book by the University of
California, Berkeley.
The author’s royalties are assigned to the Sicangu Heritage Center,
Sinte Gleska University.
Copyright 2018 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Biolsi, Thomas, author.
Title: Power and progress on the prairie : governing people on Rosebud Reservation /
Thomas Biolsi.
Description: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical
references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017056062 (print) | ISBN 978-1-5179-0082-3 (hc) | ISBN 978-1-5179-0083-0 (pb)
Subjects: LCSH: Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)—Politics and government. |
Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)—History. | 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. | Todd
County (S.D.)—Politics and government. | South Dakota—Economic conditions—20th
century.
Classification: LCC E99.D1 B565 2018 (print) | DDC 978.3/62—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017056062
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To Rose, and to Noah
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contents
Abbreviations ix
Introduction xi
1 The Birth of Liberalism on the Prairie, or How Not to
Govern Too Much 1
2 Discipline and Governmentality: Civilizing Indians and
Making Farmers Progressive 29
3 New Deal Practices: How Not to Govern Too Little 73
4 Making New Deal Subjects 131
5 Planning Who Shall Die So Others May Live:
Biopower and Cold War National Security 167
6 Voting Rights, or How a Regulatory Assemblage Governs 223
Conclusion: When Stories about the Countryside
Have Power 267
Acknowledgments 273
Notes 277
Index 333
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abbreviations
AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act
BAE Bureau of Agricultural Economics
BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CNO Chief of Naval Operations
DGXB designated ground burst
DGZ designated ground zero
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FOIA Freedom of Information Act
FY fiscal year
IIM individual Indian money
IR intermediate range
IRA Indian Reorganization Act
IRBM intermediate range ballistic missile
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
JSTPS Joint Strategic Target Planning Staffs
KT kiloton
MAD mutually assured destruction
MALOA Missile Area Land Owners Association
MRBM medium range ballistic missile
MT megaton
NGO nongovernmental organization
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