{"product_id":"modern-blackfeet-malcolm-mcfee-9780803246430","title":"Modern Blackfeet: Montanans on a Reservation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Blackfeet\u003c\/i\u003e sheds light on the politics, economics, society, and especially the acculturation of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. The Blackfeet Reservation has an established government and an active and diverse population that has long supported itself through ranching, industry, and oil and natural gas exploration. Malcolm McFee shows why, as a result, policies and programs based on simplistic assumptions of assimilation are doomed to failure. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe results of McFee's long-term research among the Blackfeet in the 1950s and 1960s make it clear that acculturation is not simply a linear process of assimilation or a one-way cultural adaptation to the impact of Euro-American culture. He reviews the changing policies of the U.S. government, which were directed initially at the destruction of all native customs and values, then at the promotion of Blackfeet self-government, and eventually at the threatened termination of their status. Finally and most important, McFee notes that racial identity on the reservation today is explained more by values and behavior than by biology and thus divides the community into a white-oriented majority and a smaller, Indian-oriented group dedicated to preserving the tribe's traditional lifeways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Malcolm McFee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803246439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803246430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Malcolm McFee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926186098943,"sku":"9780803246430","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d6e6af61-5735-410a-929f-17f05895e713.jpg?v=1681081679","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/modern-blackfeet-malcolm-mcfee-9780803246430","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}