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The great confusion in Indian affairs : Native Americans and whites in the progressive era  Cover Image Book Book

The great confusion in Indian affairs : Native Americans and whites in the progressive era / Tom Holm.

Holm, Tom, 1946- (Author).

Summary:

How Native Americans' sense of identity and "peoplehood"helped them resist and ultimately defeat the U.S. government's attempts to assimilate them into white society in the early twentieth century.

Record details

  • ISBN: 029270688X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780292706880 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0292709625 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780292709621 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xx, 244 pages ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references p. ([221]-238) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Indians of North America > Government relations.
Indians of North America > Politics and government.
Indians in popular culture.
Assimilation (Sociology) > United States > History.
United States > Social policy.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Politics and government.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.

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