Indian Resilience and Rebuilding: Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West

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Indian Resilience and Rebuilding The Modern American West David M. Wrobel and Andrew G. Kirk, Editors Carl Abbott The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West Richard W. Etulain Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art Gerald D. Nash The Federal Landscape: An Economic History of the Twentieth-Century West Ferenc Morton Szasz Religion in the Modern American West Oscar J. Martínez Mexican-Origin People in the United States: A Topical History Duane A. Smith Rocky Mountain Heartland: Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming in the Twentieth Century William G. Robbins and Katrine Barber Nature’s Northwest: The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century R. Douglas Hurt The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century Robert L. Dorman Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West Indian Resilience and Rebuilding Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West Donald L. Fixico tucson The University of Arizona Press© 2013 The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved www.uapress.arizona.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fixico, Donald Lee, 1951– Indian resilience and rebuilding : indigenous nations in the modern American west / Donald L. Fixico. pages cm — (Modern American West) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8165-1899-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8165-3064-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Indians of North America—Historiography. 2. Indians of North America— Government relations. 3. Indians of North America—Politics and government . 4. Self-determination, National—United States. 5. United States—Historiography. I. Title. E78.8.F58 2013 323.1197—dc23 2013011210 Publication of this book is made possible in part by the proceeds of a permanent endowment created with the assistance of a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency. Manufactured in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper containing a minimum of 30% post-consumer waste and processed chlorine free. 18 17 16 15 14 13 6 5 4 3 2 1 To my brother Gerald (1957–2011), always a warrior at heart ...