The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs : : Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era / / Tom Holm.

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 En...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2005
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter I. The Vanishing Policy
  • Chapter II. Persistent Peoples: Native American Social and Cultural Continuity
  • Chapter III. The New Indians
  • Chapter IV. Symbols of Native American Resiliency: The Indian Art Movement
  • Chapter V. Preserving the “Indian”: The Reassessment of the Native American Image
  • Chapter VI. Progressive Ambiguity: The Reassessment of the Vanishing Policy
  • Chapter VII. The “Great Confusion” in Indian Affairs
  • Chapter VIII. Epilogue: John Collier and Indian Reform
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index