Description: Ioway Life offers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways' efforts to retain their tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha Agency. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and correspondence from the agency's files and Presbyterian archives, Olson offers a compelling case study in U.S. colonialism and Indigenous resistance.
Brief description:
Greg Olson is retired as curator of Exhibits and Special Projects at the Missouri State Archives and author of Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen and The Ioway in Missouri.
Review Quotes: "In Ioway Life, Greg Olson does a superb job of filling in important gaps left by previous scholars regarding the outcome of federal paternalistic policy implemented among the Ioways on their reservation from 1837 to 1860."--William E. Unrau, author of The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855