Great Confusion in Indian Affairs Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era

Name: Great Confusion in Indian Affairs Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era
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ISBN: 9780292709621

ISBN-10: 0292709625

ISBN-13: 9780292709621

Edition: 2005

Authors: Tom Holm

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" The Great Confusion is essential to understanding Indian affairs during and since the Progressive period." History "In the end, this is a valuable study because Holm offerfs a new approach to a period that deserves further analysis." Journal of the West The United States government thought it could make Indians "vanish." After the Indian Wars ended in the 1880s, the government gave allotments of land to individual Native Americans in order to turn them into farmers and sent their children to boarding schools for indoctrination into the English language, Christianity, and the ways of white people. Federal officials believed that these policies would assimilate Native Americans…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.97" wide x 9.03" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.990



Preface



The Vanishing Policy



Persistent Peoples: Native American Social and Cultural Continuity



The New Indians



Symbols of Native American Resiliency: The Indian Art Movement



Preserving the "Indian": The Reassessment of the Native American Image



Progressive Ambiguity: The Reassessment of the Vanishing Policy



The "Great Confusion" in Indian Affairs



Epilogue: John Collier and Indian Reform


Notes


Bibliography


Index