On the Rez (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ian Frazier
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: About 1850 to the present
- Setting: New York City and the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
- Principal Characters: Ian Frazier, Le War Lance, SuAnne Big Crow, Leatrice “Chick” Big Crow
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: New York, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New York City, Native Americans or American Indians, Basketball
- Locales: New York, NY, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD
On the Rez is really two books that are yoked together only at the end, but which are compelling for the portraits both paint of Native American life in the United States at the end of the twentieth century. In the first two hundred pages, Ian Frazier describes his many encounters with Native American life and history. Although the focus is on the Plains Indians, and particularly the Oglala Sioux on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, their life becomes representative of the fate of Native Americans on and off the reservation and across the United States. Two-thirds of...
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