Riding Buffaloes and Broncos: Rodeo and Native Traditions in the Northern Great Plains
by Allison Fuss Mellis, Allison Susan Fuss

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In the late nineteenth century, Indian agents outlawed most traditional Native gatherings but allowed rodeo, which they viewed as a means to assimilate Indians into white culture. Mistakenly, they treated rodeo as nothing more than a demonstration of ranching skills. Yet through selective adaptation, northern Plains horsemen and audiences used rodeo to sidestep federally sanctioned acculturation. Rodeo now enabled Indians to reinforce their commitment to the very Native values--a reverence for horses, family, community, generosity, and competition--that federal agencies sought to destroy.

Mellis has mined archival sources and interviewed American Indian rodeo participants and spectators throughout the northern Great Plains, Southwest, and Canada, including Crow, Northern Cheyenne, and Lakota reservations. The book features numerous photographs of Indian rodeos from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and maps illustrating the all-Indian rodeo circuit in the United States and Canada.

United States Books

• History > Americas
• Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Customs & Traditions
• General
• Sociology > General
• Special Groups > Native American Studies
• Sports > Rodeos
• Calendars > Multicultural