Thomas Grillot is a research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research. He is the author of First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I.
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List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Becoming Indians on the River Founders and Heirs The Names of Blood Arrangements on Trial Real Relatives Local Knowledge Family Life in the Home Eating Together The Emerging Family Conclusion Bibliography
"Thomas Grillot's powerful book, based on mining the archives and immersive ethnography, reveals how 'making family' - a concept he develops across dozens of families and more than two hundred years - was defined by Dakota people amid the forces of colonization."-Christian W. McMillen, author of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory "Thomas Grillot demonstrates how Dakota and Lakota have constantly reorganized themselves to adapt to challenges from before the reservation to the present. While honoring and defending the lessons of their ancestors they have utilized varied combinations of individual and family agency to mitigate a wide array of internal and external pressures. . . . Provides a timely, deep, and unique view into Lakota and Dakota family dynamics."-William C. Meadows, author of The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I