"Heaton is masterful at making this an Indian-centered story. . . . A welcome addition to a growing body of literature—mostly focused on individual reservations—that demonstrates the dynamic Indian response to the pressures of assimilation and the market economy."—American Historical Review
"A very readable and useful book on Native Americans’ complex negotiations with modern American capitalism."—Western Historical Quarterly
"Heaton has demonstrated wonderfully how and why the Shoshone-Bannocks ‘turned the power’ and adapted to a world that had changed economically, culturally, and politically. His work is a story of survival . . . "—Pacific Northwest Quarterly
"Historians have lately begun to pay greater attention to reservation communities, and both books under review make substantial contributions to this important literature."—Journal of American History
"A most welcome contribution to history of American Indians generally and of the northern reaches of the Great Basin specifically."—Utah Historical Quarterly
"Theoretically sophisticated, methodologically innovative, nicely illustrated, and richly contextualized, this important history of the Shoshone-Bannock contributes equally to the fields of Idaho, western, and Native American studies."—Idaho Yesterdays
"A thoroughly documented account of one reservation community’s efforts to redefine its cultural and subsistence patterns. . . . Heaton’s case study successfully highlights the role cultural values played in moderating the changes wrought by outside influences, whether economic, religious, educational, or political."—Choice
“A smart study of the culturally innovative ways in which Shoshones and Bannocks, as individuals and as groups, navigated their movement into an emerging agricultural market economy and survived, even thrived, culturally and economically.”—David Rich Lewis, author of Neither Wolf nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change
“Proposing a new vocabulary, Heaton strips away the old language of ‘assimilation, resistance, progress, and decline’ that is typically applied to Native peoples in the aftermath of U.S. expansion into western North America.” —Frederick E. Hoxie, editor of Encyclopedia of North American Indians
“Should be required reading for anyone interested in Native Americans in the twentieth century.”—Albert L. Hurtado, coeditor of Major Problems in American Indian History
