We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us Native by Justin Gage PAPERBACK

We Do not Want the Gates Closed Between UsNative Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance\nAuthor(s): Justin Gage\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806186368, 978-0806186368\nSynopsis\nIn the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples, isolating them from one another and from the white populations coursing through the plains. We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us tells the story of how Native Americans resisted this effort by building vast intertribal networks of communication, threaded together by letter writing and off-reservation visiting.\n\n Faced with the consequences of [url] colonialismthe constraints, population loss, and destitutionNative Americans, far from passively accepting their fate, mobilized to contr.