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Original Title:	On the Rez
ISBN:	0312278594 (ISBN13: 9780312278595)
Edition Language:	English

On the Rez

Ian Frazier

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 1602 Users | 162 Reviews

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Title	:	On the Rez
Author	:	Ian Frazier
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	May 4th 2001 by Picador USA (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Travel

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On the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlands of the American West. Crazy Horse, perhaps the greatest Indian war leader of the 1800s, and Black Elk, the holy man whose teachings achieved worldwide renown, were Oglala; in these typically perceptive pages, Frazier seeks out their descendants on Pine Ridge--a/k/a "the rez"--which is one of the poorest places in America today.

Along with his longtime friend Le War Lance (whom he first wrote about in his 1989 bestseller, Great Plains) and other Oglala companions, Frazier fully explores the rez as they visit friends and relatives, go to pow-wows and rodeos and package stores, and tinker with a variety of falling-apart cars. He takes us inside the world of the Sioux as few writers ever have, writing with much wit, compassion, and imagination. In the career of SuAnne Big Crow, for example, the most admired Oglala basketball player of all time, who died in a car accident in 1992, Frazier finds a contemporary reemergence of the death-defying, public-spirited Sioux hero who fights with grace and glory to save her followers.

On the Rez vividly portrays the survival, through toughness and humor, of a great people whose culture has helped to shape the American identity.

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The most compelling aspect of this book, for me, was the way the author inserted himself into the narrative. Sometimes when I am reading non-fiction, that kind of subjectivity bothers me, but in this case, I think the book wouldn't have been a success without it.Frazier's connection to, and his quasi-obsession with, the Oglala Sioux, is recounted in this memoir-esque book. He builds the story off of his on-again/off-again friendship with Le, who lives in Pine Ridge on the Sioux reservation. The

Simply a beautiful book. Not perfect, but it seems wondefully true to what the author thinks, experienced, and learned, and to what he couldn't resolve."The real issue is that Indians' relationship to this country is still that of the colonized, so that when non-Indians write about us, it's colonial literature. And unless it's seen that way, there's a problem.What really bothered me about Ian Frazier's book is how everybody kept talking about it as some sort of special work, and it's not. It's a

Read this book after having visited the Pine Ridge Reservation and found it to be fairly accurate. It is not a book giving a historical account of Native American life, specifically, not of Lakota history. It is telling of current Lakota life. I don't know that it exemplifies the pride of tradition, family, and the reasons for staying in such a poverty ridden area.

Frazier writes a free-wheeling account of the Pine Ridge, South Dakota Sioux reservation and the Native Americans he meets there and in New York City. This book is hard to categorize: part history, part sociological treatise, part political polemic, part humorous treatment of modern life, part stream of conscious reporting with a debt to Tom Wolfe--and none of the above. It works at each level, and keeps you reading hungry for more.

I really tried with "On the Rez". After hearing conflicting opinions from other readers, I forged ahead and gave it almost 150 pages--but I can take no more!The book contains some interesting information and anecdotes, but it runs all over the place. Frazier doesn't seem to have a clear purpose for what he's writing about. The stories almost seem better suited to magazine pieces (which may be what he originally intended?). One thing that bothered me greatly was Frazier's stating that while many

This book was uneven but overall it was well worth reading. It's an unjudgmental look at Native Americans living on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The author doesn't pretend that the specific man he profiles is typical, but he does a good job of fitting himself in to make observations even though he (the author) is an outsider. I think the books' real strength is the overviews he has of bits of Native American history, facts about Native Americans in the US today, and reconstructing some of the

I love this book. It gives me insight into a culture which is unlike yet intertwined with my own. Growing up white in western South Dakota generally meant ignoring the fact that the poorest county in the nation is an hour and a half from my home. Ian Frazier comes into the Pine Ridge reservation as a friend to one man, and he gets to know people and tells their amazing stories.I think my favorite thing about this book is Frazier's tone. So frequently when you hear about the Lakota peoples the