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Publication Date

5-3-1977

Abstract

In 1878 the Rosebud Indian Agency was built in an area that eventually became part of western South Dakota. The Sioux wars were over and as part of the settlement, the federal government built the agency for the sole use and occupation of the Upper Brule Teton Dakota and other remnants from different bands who lived with the Brules. With the erection of Rosebud, the federal government through the reservation system attempted to strip the Indian of their past nomadic cultural and prepare them for the eventual acculturation and assimilation into the dominant American social and economic systems. After examining pertinent manuscript collections and gleaning government publications and the serial set, it became evident that over several generations the reservation system and past Indian policies failed to bring the American Indian into the mainstream of American life.

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Degree Name

History

Department Name

History

First Committee Member (Chair)

Richard Nathaniel Ellis

Second Committee Member

Donald Colgett Cutter

Third Committee Member

William Miner Dabney

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

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