The Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Insight and Industrial Empire in the ... - Google Books

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At an 1887 council when his people were told to learn farming in the semidesert region east of the Wind River Mountains, the Shosone chief Washakie exploded with "God damn a potato!" His instincts were all against the cultivation of semiarid…