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Author Dippie, Brian W.

Title The vanishing American : white attitudes and U.S. Indian policy / Brian W. Dippie.

Publication Info. Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 1991.
©1982

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  973.0497 D596V    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 423 pages : : illustrations ; ; 24 cm
Contents 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Indians of North America -- Government relations.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations.
ISBN 070060507X paperback $14.95
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