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In vivid detail, this book tells about rodeo's place in the cultures of three northern Plains Indian nations. With its origins in government. sponsored agricultural fairs, Indian rodeo became a means of celebrating and sustaining an adapting culture. Equestrianism on the plains, itself an adaptation, became a hallmark of cultural preservation, with rodeo as one of its chief instruments.

[Mellis] is the first to write about rodeo in the northern Great Plains in detail. She clearly presents how and why specific Indian reservations participated in rodeo and highlights the development of key gatherings such as the Crow Fair. In vivid detail, this book tells about rodeo's place in the cultures of three northern Plains Indian nations. With its origins in government. sponsored agricultural fairs, Indian rodeo became a means of celebrating and sustaining an adapting culture. Equestrianism on the plains, itself an adaptation, became a hallmark of cultural preservation, with rodeo as one of its chief instruments.

In vivid detail, this book tells about rodeo's place in the cultures of three northern Plains Indian nations. With its origins in government. sponsored agricultural fairs, Indian rodeo became a means of celebrating and sustaining an adapting culture. Equestrianism on the plains, itself an adaptation, became a hallmark of cultural preservation, with rodeo as one of its chief instruments. [Mellis] is the first to write about rodeo in the northern Great Plains in detail. She clearly presents how and why specific Indian reservations participated in rodeo and highlights the development of key gatherings such as the Crow Fair.

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Allison Fuss Mellis is Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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