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The vanishing American : White attitudes and U.S. Indian policy / Brian W. Dippie.
Not long after the white man stepped ashore in North America he began killing Indians and pushing those that survived farther and farther west. And what of his conscience? Well, he invented a convenient explanation: Indians are a vanishing race, doomed to extinction anyway.
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- ISBN: 070060507X :
- ISBN: 9780700605071
- Physical Description: xvii, 423 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1991], c1982.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Reprint. Originally published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1982.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-408) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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 -- There will be no "later" for the Indian: amalgamation and the vanishing race -- To each age its own Indian: the 1920s and the changing Indian -- To plow up the Indian soul: the Indian Reorganization Act -- It is only well begun: the New Deal legacy.
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| Lummi Library | E 93 .D57 1991 | 02235808 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | E 93 .D58 | 02235807 | Stacks | Checked out | 02/18/2011 |
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