"A critical, comparative examination of internal colonization exercised by the United States and Russia and experienced by two indigenous populations, the Sioux and the Kazakhs, to negate the tendency to isolate the study of American history, to overemphasize the uniqueness of the American development and to exalt national pride"--Provided by publisher.

The Sioux and the Kazakhs -- Pre-nineteenth-century expansion -- Conquest and martial resistance -- Through the colonial looking-glass -- Internal colonization -- Assimilation and identity.