We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us Walter E. Barton asymmetric power dynamics

asymmetric power dynamics

Acknowledgments

Harvard University's School of Public Health

Kathleen Merrigan

We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us Walter E. Barton asymmetric power dynamicsIn 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