On the Rez

"ON THE REZ, an informal chronicle of daily life on the Oglala Sioux's Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, disperses a lot of the holistic smoke that continues to cloud white people's vision of Indians....[I]t's mercifully free of sweat-lodge revelations and sacred-buffalo-dung mysticism....Frazier confesses right away that what he likes about his Indian friends and their legendary ancestors isn't their alleged oneness with nature but their real-life separateness from society....He's a voyeur. A voyeur in the good sense, who knows he can't be part of something that he longs to be part of nonetheless."Frazier, Ian is the author of 'On the Rez', published 2001 under ISBN 9780312278595 and ISBN 0312278594.