Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music 1879-1934. (New Directions in Native American Studies Series, vol. 3)

Due in large part to agentive and resistant tactics onreservation, and the reinvigoration and transformation of dance forms by young students returning from off-reservation boarding schools who brought with them new skills in language and music, Trout - man shows how Indian dance complexes were forums in which hierarchies of class, race, and citizenship were challenged and contested. [...] there is still more to be said in Troutman's analysis of the boarding school experience, and this reviewer would have liked to see the author more fully contextualize the place of musical practice by boarding school students within the systemic violence visited upon an entire generation of Native youth, subjected to the century-long state-sanctioned program of cultural genocide that arguably represents the nadir of Native-government relations in the United States-and Canada.