Deadliest Enemies Law and Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation Thomas Biolsi Table of Contents		$20.00 paper ISBN: 0-8166-4971-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4971-6
How U.S. federal law creates racial conflict between Native American and white people—with a new introduction. Many people living far away from Indian reservations express sympathy for the poverty and misery experienced by Native Americans, yet, Thomas Biolsi argues, the problems faced by Native Americans are the results of white privilege. In Deadliest Enemies, Biolsi connects the origins of racial tension between Indians and non-Indians on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota to federal laws, showing how the courts have created opposing political interests along race lines. Biolsi demonstrates that the court’s definitions of legal rights—both constitutional and treaty rights—make solutions to racial tensions intractable. This powerful work sheds much-needed light on racial conflicts in South Dakota and in the rest of the United States, and holds white people accountable for the benefits of their racial privilege that come at the expense of Native Americans. “This book is required reading for everyone living in the United States because all of our fortunes began with the process of appropriating land and resources from American Indians.” —Kathleen Pickering Thomas Biolsi is professor of Native American studies at the University of California at Berkeley. 280 pages | 6 halftones | 5 7⁄8 x 9 | 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction to the New Edition: Indian Law and White Innocence List of Maps and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: “Deadliest Enemies” and the Discourse of Indian Law 1. A Short History of Rosebud Reservation 2. Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip: Reservation Boundaries and Legal Rights 3. The Mission Liquor Store and Racial Hard Feelings 4. State Jurisdiction in Indian Country 5. Tribal Jurisdiction over Non-Indians 6. Making Indian-White Relations Conclusion: Whiteness and the Legal Imagination References Index