American Indian Policy in the Formative Years
American Indian Policy in the Formative Years

Author: Francis Paul Prucha

Publisher: Cambridge Harvard U. P

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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The official attitudes concerning the nature and rights of the Indian are reviewed through an examination of issues, early treaties, and legislation.

American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era
American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era

Author: Ronald N. Satz

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780806134321

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The Jacksonian period has long been recognized as a watershed era in American Indian policy. Ronald N. Satz’s American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era uses the perspectives of both ethnohistory and public administration to analyze the formulation, execution, and results of government policies of the 1830s and 1840s. In doing so, he examines the differences between the rhetoric and the realities of those policies and furnishes a much-needed corrective to many simplistic stereo-types about Jacksonian Indian policy.

American Indian Policy and American Reform
American Indian Policy and American Reform

Author: Christine Bolt

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-01

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1000996484

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First published in 1987, American Indian Policy and American Reform examines key aspects of American Indian policy and reform in the context of American ethnic problems and traditions of reform. The first four chapters provide a chronological survey discussing racial attitudes, economic issues, the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, missionary and reformer involvement with government policy, the political interaction of Indians and whites, and other continuing differences between the two races. The second part of the book examines important themes which illuminate the difficulties of the assimilation campaign. In a series of case studies, Prof. Bolt explores Indian-black-white relations in the South and Indian Territory, American anthropologists and American Indians, Indian education from colonial times to the 20th century, Indian women, urban Indians since the Second World War and Indian political protest groups. This book will be of interest to students of American history, ‘minority’ history and race relations.

A History of Indian Policy
A History of Indian Policy

Author: Samuel Lyman Tyler

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13:

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The 10 chapters cover: the nature of Indian policy; the Indian and the European; treaties and Indian trade; tribal removal and concentration westward; reservations for Indian tribes; allotments to individual Indians; tribal reorganization; Indian relocation and tribal termination; Indian policy and American life in the 1960's; self determination through Indian leadership, 1968 to 1972; and Indian policy goals for the early 1970's. The bibliography includes general reference works, unpublished materials, government documents, BIA publications, books, newspapers, and periodical literature. The appendix gives dates significant in the development of Indian policy and administrators of U.S. Federal Indian policy from 1789 to the present. (KM).

American Indian Policy in Crisis
American Indian Policy in Crisis

Author: Francis Paul Prucha

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2014-04-14

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 0806146435

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In this book a distinguished authority in the field presents an account of United States Indian policy in the years 1865 to 1900, one of the most critical periods in Indian-white relations. Francis Paul Prucha discusses in detail the major developments of those years—Grant's Peace Policy, the reservation system, the agitation for transfer of Indian affairs to military control, the General Allotment Act (the Dawes Act), Indian citizenship, Indian education, Civil Service reform of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the dissolution of the Indian nations of the Indian Territory. American Indian Policy in Crisis focuses on the Christian humanitarians and philanthropists who were the ultimate driving force in the "reform" of Indian affairs. The programs of these men and women to individualize and Americanize the Indians and turn them into patriotic American citizens indistinguishable from their white neighbors are examined at length. The story is not a pretty one, for reformers' changes were often disastrous for the Indians, and yet it is a tremendously important work for understanding the Indians’ situation and their place in American society today. Prucha does not treat Indian policy in isolation but relates it to the dominant cultural and intellectual currents of the age. This book furnishes a view of the evangelical Christian influence on American policy and the reforming spirit it engendered, both of which have a significance extending beyond Indian policy alone. Thorough documentation and an excellent bibliography enhance its value.