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A 4 page review of the book by Gary Clayton Anderson. The author details the contradictions which are inherent in the historical pronouncement of the Lakota people as a "nation". Anderson's thesis is that the final recognition of the Lakota as a nation was indeed a paradox. Not only had the U.S. government never historically recognized the Lakota as a true nation and would fail to give that recognition even after they themselves had pronounced the Lakota a nation, they withheld the designation until a time when the Lakota were least capable of acting as a nation. No additional sources are listed.
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of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inherent in the historical pronouncement of the Lakota people as a "nation". Anderson presents a factual
accounting of the Lakota people from the time of the White invasion into their homelands through their forced retreat to the reservation, the ghost dance and the eventual recognition of
the nation by the United States government. Andersons thesis is that this final recognition was indeed a paradox. Not only had the U.S. government never historically recognized the
Lakota as a true nation and would fail to give that recognition even after they themselves had pronounced the Lakota a nation, they withheld the designation until a time when
the Lakota were least capable of acting as a nation. By all accounts the relationship between the Lakota and the white invaders was
most certainly a rocky one and one that has been complicated by geographical, historical, political, constitutional, cultural and even racial considerations. Anderson contends that the Lakota, like most of
the native inhabitants of this country at the time of the arrival of the white Europeans, were doomed to incur great cultural and political changes. These changes were at
first slow coming but once they started they escalated much like a rolling snowball. The heat of the turmoil centered around one of the greatest leader of the Sioux,
Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull was as different from the whites that invaded his land as red was from white. Sitting Bull epitomized everything about the Lakota that the
whites hated. They set about changing Sitting Bull just as they set about changing the Lakota as a whole. To lure him in they used empty promises but
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