Book
The vanishing American : White attitudes and U.S. Indian policy
Record details
- ISBN: 070060507X :
- ISBN: 9780700605071
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Physical Description:
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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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| Subject: | Indians of North America Government relations Indians of North America Public opinion History Public opinion United States History |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | E 93 .D57 1991 | 02235808 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | E 93 .D58 | 02235807 | Stacks | Checked out | 02/18/2011 |