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The Shoshone-Bannocks: Culture and Commerce at Fort Hall, 1870-1940
John W. Heaton
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Description for The Shoshone-Bannocks: Culture and Commerce at Fort Hall, 1870-1940
Hardcover. Tells how the Shoshone-Bannocks made a meaningful choice between productive commerce and a more typical reliance on subsistence and wage labor. This case study challenges the view that Indians were ill suited to market-based pursuits and enhances our understanding of cultural persistence within the broader sweep of historical change. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWD; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Like many Native Americans consigned to reservations, the Shoshones and Bannocks of Idaho and Utah initially resisted the forces of incorporation; unlike many, they rose to the challenges they faced. Shoshone-Bannock cattlemen at Fort Hall, Idaho, survived drought, overgrazing, declining markets, and a world financial crisis that drove most non-Indian operators in the region out of business. John W. Heaton's book tells how they did it and assesses their success in pushing their cultural agendas in the face of federal Indian policy and international market pressures. Confined to the Fort Hall Reservation from the 1880s to 1920s, the Shoshone-Bannocks faced ... Read more
Like many Native Americans consigned to reservations, the Shoshones and Bannocks of Idaho and Utah initially resisted the forces of incorporation; unlike many, they rose to the challenges they faced. Shoshone-Bannock cattlemen at Fort Hall, Idaho, survived drought, overgrazing, declining markets, and a world financial crisis that drove most non-Indian operators in the region out of business. John W. Heaton's book tells how they did it and assesses their success in pushing their cultural agendas in the face of federal Indian policy and international market pressures. Confined to the Fort Hall Reservation from the 1880s to 1920s, the Shoshone-Bannocks faced ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
678g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700614028
SKU
V9780700614028
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About John W. Heaton
John W. Heaton is assistant professor of history at the University of Alaska - Fairbanks.
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