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The History of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 1600-2012 By David Miller, Dennis Smith, Joseph McGeshik, James Shanley, and Caleb Shields. Poplar mt: Fort Peck Community College, 2012. xiii + 592 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, index. $80.00 paper.
A Montana state constitutional amendment in 1972, coupled with American Indian connection to education and representation in the state legislature, led to the Montana Indian Education for All Act. This law gave Montana tribes support in writing their own histories.
The collective work of Miller, Smith, McGeshik, Shanley, and Shields provides a historical foundation for the Great Plains'...