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Col. Benjamin Grierson, sometime between 1860 and 1870. Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints, Librar y of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. Oct 2014 shq.indd 178 9/8/14 3:00 PM “If the Government Will Only . . . Fulfill Its Obligations”: Colonel Benjamin Grierson, Rations Policy, and the Kiowa Indians, 1868–1872 By Catharine R. Franklin* n advocating a “New Western History” more than twenty-five years ago, Patricia Nelson Limerick affirmed the success of coloniza- Ition when she suggested that the West was a “place undergoing con- quest.” More recently, Elliott West has noted that the federal government stamped out Indian resistance with “conquest and coercion.” Scholars emphasize that Native peoples responded to white encroachment in a multitude of ways; yet, they still tend to assume that the military obedi- ently advanced the cause of American domination. Historians continue to describe the militar y’s ability to control Indians as “virtually effortless,” and a recent work on the nineteenth-century U.S. Army claims that offi- cers in the Southwest “constructed an empire of denial, difference, and frustration” in which Native peoples were made “monstrous others.” In fact, however, relationships between Indians and army officers tran- scended simple narratives of conquest.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Texas State Historical Association
Published: Nov 3, 2014
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