| Description |
xxxii, 1302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Volumes I & II combined and unabridged. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1232-1257) and index. |
| Contents |
The Colonial experience (Images of the Indians -- Christianization -- Invasion of the Indian lands -- Trade relations -- British imperial policy) -- Formative years, peace after the Revolution (The policy of the Continental Congress -- Early treaties and ordinances -- The Constitution and Indian policy -- Indian rights to the land) -- War and defense (Subjugating the Indians northwest of the Ohio River -- Unrest and retaliation in the South -- Probing the New West -- The War of 1812 -- American dominion -- North, West, and South) -- Trade and intercourse laws (Legislation to control the frontier whites -- Regulating the trade in furs -- The crusade against ardent spirits. |
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Crimes in the Indian country -- Removal of intruders on Indian lands) -- Government trading Houses : factories (Beginnings of the factory system -- Jeffersonian expansion -- Attack and support -- The end of the factories) -- Civilization and education (Civilization -- Agriculture and domestic industry -- Christinization -- The role of Thomas L. McKenney -- The Civilization Fund and Indian schools -- Jedidiah Morse's report) -- The Indian Department (Superintendents and agents -- Headquarters organization -- Assistance from military commanders -- Presents and annuities -- Peace medals and delegations) -- Indian removal. The policy of Indian removal (Formulation of the policy -- Andrew Jackson and the removal -- Motivation for removal -- Controversy and debate -- The Cherokee cases). |
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The emigration of the Southern tribes (Choctaws -- Creeks -- Chickasaws -- Investigating the lands in the west -- Seminoles and the Florida war -- Cherokees and the Trail of Tears) -- Removel of the Northern Indians (Clearing the Old Northwest -- Potawatomi dispersal -- Sacs and Foxes and the Black Hawk War -- Other tribes -- New York Indians -- The role of the traders) -- The emigrant Indians in the West (Transplanted Indian nations -- Military defense of the frontier -- Benevolence and reform) -- New structures and programs (Development of the Indian Department -- Proposals for an Indian state -- Annuities and liquor regulation) -- American expansion and the reservation system. The Indian office : men and policies (Department of the Interior -- Commissioners of the 1850s. |
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An expanded Indian Department -- Perennial problems : annuities and liquor -- The challenge of scientific racism) -- A pathway to the Pacific (Colonization of the Western tribes -- Kansas-Nebraska and the Indians -- Military action on the Plains) -- Texas, New Mexico, and Utah (The Indian situation in Texas -- Reservations for Texas Indians -- Indian affairs in New Mexico -- Indians, Mormons, and Gentiles) -- California, Oregon, and Washington (A reservation policy for California -- Indian affiars in the Oregon country -- The Indians of Washington territory) -- The Civil War years. The Southern Indians and the Confederate States (Tribes in the Indian territory -- Indian treaties with the Confederacy -- War in the Indian territory -- Peace council at Fort Smith -- Reconstruction treaties). |
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Indian conflicts : a series of other wars (Sioux uprising in Minnesota -- War in the Southwest -- Bosque Redondo -- The great experiment -- Sand Creek) -- The Indian system and its critics (Commissioner Dole and the reservation system -- Protests against the Indian system -- Proposals for military control) -- The peace policy. Stirrings of reform (Doolittle Committee -- Indian Peace Commission -- Civilization for the Indians -- Reform impulses) -- Structures of the peace policy (The board of Indian commissioners -- Churches and the agencies -- Failure of the structures -- The end of treaty making) -- Military challenge (Indian wars -- The Army and the Indian -- The transfer issue -- The end of the military phase) -- Reservation policy (Consolidation of reservations -- Indian resistance to removal -- Revision of reservation policy) -- The Indian Service : policies and administration). |
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An array of commissioners -- Fraud and the "Indian Rings" -- Inspectors and special agents -- Policies and programs -- Law and order) -- The new christian reformers (Reform organizations -- Christian humanitarianism -- Americanization -- Other voices) -- The reservations and reform (Dismantling the Great Sioux Reserve -- Mission Indians of California -- Promotion of civilization -- Continuing liquor problems -- Opposition to reservations) -- Severalty, law and citizenship (The drive for a General Allotment Law -- The Dawes Act -- Leasing of allotments -- Renaming the Indians -- Law for the Indians -- Citizenship) -- Education for patriotic citizenship (Promotion of Indian schools -- Carlisle Indian Industrial School. |
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Thomas Jefferson Morgan and Indian schools -- Conflict over the contract schools -- Competition from the wild west shows) -- The Indian Service : bureaucratization and reform (Growth of the Indian Service -- Civil Service reform -- The lesson of Wounded Knee -- Replacing the political agents) -- Territorial expansion (The drive for territorial organization -- Invasion of the Indian territory -- Defeat of the five civilized tribes -- Oklahoma statehood) -- The nation's wards. The Indian Office : the Indians' guardian (Progressives in the Indian Office -- The decline of the christian reformers -- Administrative efficiency -- Liquor and Peyote) -- The 1920s : the guardian on trial (Continuity and development -- The Bureau under siege -- Investigations and reports) -- Education for self-support (The Indian School System. |
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Public schools for Indians -- Courses of study -- Success and failure) -- Concern for Indian health (The condition of Indian health -- Initial campaigns against disease -- A continuing but insufficient fight -- The critics) -- The Indians' land (Continuing allotment -- Modifications of the Dawes Act -- Competency and fee patents -- Land policy in the 1920s -- Forestry and irrigation -- Appraisal of the Allotment Policy) -- Indians of Oklahoma and New York (Final dissolution of the five civilized tribes -- Removal of restrictions -- The scandal of the probate courts -- Indians schools in Oklahoma -- The Indians of New York State) -- The Indian new Deal. Transition : the Hoover years (New officials -- Progress and reform -- Failures -- Attacks and rebuttals). |
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The new reform (John Collier, commissioner -- Conservation and relief -- New Deal measures -- John Collier's reform proposal -- The Wheeler-Howard (Indian reorganization) Act -- Rounding out the New Deal (Extending the Indian Reorganization Act -- Indian arts and crafts -- Continuing educational reform -- Health programs -- Economic development -- The bureaucracy) -- The end of the Indian New Deal (John Collier's Travail -- Congressional attacks -- The Indians and World War II -- The legacy of the Indian New Deal) -- Termination. The postwar years (The Indian Claims Commission -- Postwar readjustment -- The approach of termination -- Bureau reorganization) -- Termination in action (Legislative action -- Termination laws -- Reversal of policy) -- Programs for Indians (Education for cultural change -- Transfer of Indian health services. |
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Economic development -- Relocation) -- Indian self-determination. Turnabout in the 1960s (The new trail -- The war against poverty -- New emphasis on Indian self-determination -- The state of Indian education -- The Civil Rights Act of 1968) -- Signs of the New Day (Nixon's Indian Policy -- The New Indians and red power -- Turnover and turmoil in the BIA -- Religious freedom -- Alaska native claims -- Menominee restoration) -- Advances in Indian rights and responsibilities (Indian education -- Indian health -- Indian Child Welfare Act -- Indian Self-Determination Act -- American Indian Policy Review Commission) -- Legal and judicial maneuvering (Land claims and conflicts -- Water rights -- Fishing and hunting rights -- Inherent sovereignty and tribal jurisdiction). |
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The American Indians in 1980 (Urban Indians and nonrecognized tribes -- Federal programs for Indians -- Building an economic base -- Trust responsibility : the Great Father Redivivus -- America's unfinished business) -- Appendixes (Appendix A (Presidents, Secretaries of War and Interior, and Commissioners of Indian Affairs) -- Appendix B (Indian population) -- Appendix C (Indian tribal entities that have a government-to-government relationship with the United States) -- Appendix D (Nomenclature of the Bureau of Indian Affairs). |
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Indians of North America -- Government relations.
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Overheidsbeleid.
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Indians of North America -- Government relations.
(OCoLC)fst00969761
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations.
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Indianen.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Prucha, Francis Paul. Great father. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1995] (OCoLC)605516364 |
| ISBN |
0803287348 (pbk.) |
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9780803287341 (pbk.) |
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0803236689 (alk. paper) |
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9780803236684 (alk. paper) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5000 T758 -1995 nbdocs |
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