{"product_id":"the-pursuit-of-family-a-history-of-dakota-and-lakota-family-and-kinship-on-the-standing-rock-reservation-1794-2022-paperback-softback-9781496247551","title":"The Pursuit of Family; A History of Dakota and Lakota Family and Kinship on the Standing Rock Reservation, 1794–2022 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496247551","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Pursuit of Family\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of Dakota and Lakota Family and Kinship on the Standing Rock Reservation, 1794–2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas Grillot (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496247551\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e396 pages, 5 illus., 10 photographs, 1 map, 5 tables, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.588 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Thomas Grillot's powerful book, based on mining the archives and immersive ethnography, reveals how 'making family'—a concept he develops across dozens of families and more than two hundred years—was defined by Dakota people amid the forces of colonization.\"—Christian W. McMillen, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Thomas Grillot demonstrates how Dakota and Lakota have constantly reorganized themselves to adapt to challenges from before the reservation to the present. While honoring and defending the lessons of their ancestors they have utilized varied combinations of individual and family agency to mitigate a wide array of internal and external pressures. . . . Provides a timely, deep, and unique view into Lakota and Dakota family dynamics.\"—William C. Meadows, author of \u003ci\u003eThe First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Family\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual efforts that made survival possible on Standing Rock, one of the most understudied reservations despite being one of the best-known Native locations in the United States—Sitting Bull died there in 1890, and a protest camp organized there against the Dakota Access pipeline made international news in 2016. Yet this is a book not about famous people or events but about ordinary people confronted with a deceptively simple question: How can we be a family on the reservation? Integrating archival material, oral history, and fieldwork, Grillot tells the history of dozens of reservation-based Dakota and Lakota families from the beginning of the reservation era to today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Family\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the Dakotas and Lakotas, tied by a common language and way of life, developed under the pressures of settler colonialism and shifted formations of kinship across time and space. It is a story of resistance, negotiation, and adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ch1\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Becoming Indians on the River \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Founders and Heirs \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Names of Blood \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Arrangements on Trial \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Real Relatives \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Local Knowledge \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Family Life in the Home \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Eating Together \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Emerging Family \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600323408152,"sku":"9781496247551","price":25.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-pursuit-of-family-a-history-of-dakota-and-lakota-family-and-kinship-on-the-standing-rock-reservation-1794-2022-paperback-softback-9781496247551","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}