Their power has been broken: the Indian after the war of 1812 -- The anatomy of the vanishing American -- The pathology of the vanishing American -- Making good neighbors: segregation in Indian policy -- A magnanimous act of interposition: Indian removal -- Red, white, and black -- Can he be saved? Environmentalism and evolutionism -- He can be saved: agriculture and education -- The convenient extinction doctrine: a crusade against the vanishing American -- In search of the one true answer: Indian policy after the Civil War -- A new order of things: the general Allotment Act -- A matter of administration: Indian policy's confident years -- We have come to the day of audit: the vanishing American returns -- Now or never is the time: cultural extinction and the conservationist impulse.