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The Blackfoot and the Barbarians

The Blackfoot and the Barbarians ORGANIZATION & ENVIRO Proyect NMENT / BOOK / March REVIEW 1999 ESSAY Book Review Essays LOUIS PROYECT Columbia University Chrisjohn Roland and Sherri Lynn Young. The Circle Game: Shadows and Sub- stance in the Indian Residence School Experience in Canada. Penticon, British Columbia, Canada: Theytus, 1995, 327 pp. Timothy Egan. Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West. New York: Knopf, 1998, 266 pp. Margaret A. Kennedy. The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains.New York: Peter Lang, 1997, 181 pp. J. R. Miller. Shingwauk’s Vision. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto, 1996, 582 pp. Donald Worster. An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1994, 151 pp. Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): “Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?” Gandhi: “I think it would be a good idea.” Beginning in the mid-1800s and coming to a climax in the post-Civil War period, rapacious gold prospectors, fur trading companies, and ranchers invaded Blackfoot territory. They came in the same fashion that profit-oriented barbarians have come to the Amazon rainforest in recent decades, with plunder in their hearts and a will- ingness to exterminate anybody who got in the way. It should come as no http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

The Blackfoot and the Barbarians

Proyect, Louis
Organization & Environment , Volume 12 (1): 10 – Mar 1, 1999
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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRO Proyect NMENT / BOOK / March REVIEW 1999 ESSAY Book Review Essays LOUIS PROYECT Columbia University Chrisjohn Roland and Sherri Lynn Young. The Circle Game: Shadows and Sub- stance in the Indian Residence School Experience in Canada. Penticon, British Columbia, Canada: Theytus, 1995, 327 pp. Timothy Egan. Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West. New York: Knopf, 1998, 266 pp. Margaret A. Kennedy. The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains.New York: Peter Lang, 1997, 181 pp. J. R. Miller. Shingwauk’s Vision. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto, 1996, 582 pp. Donald Worster. An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1994, 151 pp. Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): “Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?” Gandhi: “I think it would be a good idea.” Beginning in the mid-1800s and coming to a climax in the post-Civil War period, rapacious gold prospectors, fur trading companies, and ranchers invaded Blackfoot territory. They came in the same fashion that profit-oriented barbarians have come to the Amazon rainforest in recent decades, with plunder in their hearts and a will- ingness to exterminate anybody who got in the way. It should come as no

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