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The Washakie Letters of Willie Ottogary: Northwestern Shoshone Journalist and Leader, 1906-1929 (review)

The Washakie Letters of Willie Ottogary: Northwestern Shoshone Journalist and Leader, 1906-1929... ing culture for a longer period of time than many other Plains tribes. Initial efforts to enforce the civilization programs of the Peace Policy, for example, met with resistance among the Shoshones and were undercut by the failures of the federal government to provide adequate housing and provisions that would keep the Indians at the agency. In time, however, the growing cattle industry, dwindling buffalo herds, land cessions, and the waning power of cultural brokers like Washakie forced the Shoshones to become more cooperative in their dealings with reservation agents. This spelled doom for their traditional political and economic life, but Stamm maintains that the Shoshones' religious traditions, though battered, remained intact and began to assume new meanings to meet the exigencies of twentieth-century life. People of the Wind River is the first book-length history of the Eastern Shoshones and as such will add significantly to our knowledge of the complex nature of Indianwhite relations in the nineteenth-century West. Stamm's extensive use of primary documents, including agency and church records, government documents, letters, newspapers, and personal interviews, allows us to see these relations three dimensionally and to develop a fuller understanding of the often subtle--but effective--means by which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

The Washakie Letters of Willie Ottogary: Northwestern Shoshone Journalist and Leader, 1906-1929 (review)

Peterson del Mar, David
The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 25 (3) – Jan 10, 2001
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ing culture for a longer period of time than many other Plains tribes. Initial efforts to enforce the civilization programs of the Peace Policy, for example, met with resistance among the Shoshones and were undercut by the failures of the federal government to provide adequate housing and provisions that would keep the Indians at the agency. In time, however, the growing cattle industry, dwindling buffalo herds, land cessions, and the waning power of cultural brokers like Washakie forced the Shoshones to become more cooperative in their dealings with reservation agents. This spelled doom for their traditional political and economic life, but Stamm maintains that the Shoshones' religious traditions, though battered, remained intact and began to assume new meanings to meet the exigencies of twentieth-century life. People of the Wind River is the first book-length history of the Eastern Shoshones and as such will add significantly to our knowledge of the complex nature of Indianwhite relations in the nineteenth-century West. Stamm's extensive use of primary documents, including agency and church records, government documents, letters, newspapers, and personal interviews, allows us to see these relations three dimensionally and to develop a fuller understanding of the often subtle--but effective--means by which

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Published: Jan 10, 2001

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