When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples And Cattle Ranching In The American West

Focusing on the northern plains and the Southwest, Iverson traces the rise and fall of individual and tribal cattle industries against the backdrop of changing federal Indian policies. He describes the Indian Bureau's inability to recognize that most nineteenth-century reservations were better suited to ranching than farming. Even though allotment and leasing stifled ranching, livestock became symbols and ranching a new means of resisting, adapting, and living - for remaining Native.

• | Author: Peter Iverson
• | Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 14, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 290 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 0806128844
• | ISBN-13: 9780806128849