American Indian Issues In The State Of South Dakota

The Rights of Indians and Tribes is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law and explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way. Using a question-and-answer format, the book covers every important subject impacting Indians and tribes today. The fifth edition includes a Foreword by John Echohawk, Director of the Native American Rights Fund, discusses new legislation, and is updated with hundreds of court decisions that have taken place since the previous edition.

A great writer's journey of exploration in an American place that is both strange and deeply familiar. In Ian Frazier's bestselling Great Plains, he described meeting a man in New York City named Le War Lance, "an Oglala Sioux Indian from Oglala, South Dakota." In On the Rez, Frazier returns to the plains and focuses on a place at their center-the Pine Ridge Reservation in the prairie and badlands of South Dakota, home of the Oglala Sioux. Frazier drives around "the rez" with Le War Lance and other Oglalas as they tell stories, visit relatives, go to powwows and rodeos and package stores, and try to find parts to fix one or another of their on-the-verge-of-working cars. On the Rez considers Indian ideas of freedom and community and equality that are basic to how we view ourselves. Most of all, he examines the Indian idea of heroism-its suffering and its pulse-quickening, public-spirited glory. On the Rez portrays the survival, through toughness and humor, of a great people whose culture has shaped our American identity.