Indian-White relations : a persistent paradox : [papers and proceedings of the National Archives Conference on Research in the History of Indian-White Relations, June 15-16, 1972, the National Archives Building/Washington, D.C.]

National Archives Conference on Research in the History of Indian-White Relations (1972 : Washington, D.C.) (Author). Smith, Jane F., 1916- (Added Author). Kvasnicka, Robert M., 1935- (Added Author). United States. National Archives and Records Service. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0882580558
ISBN: 9780882580555
Physical Description: xx, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Washington : Howard University Press, 1976.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Jack Eckerd -- Preface / James B. Rhoads -- Introduction / Jane F. Smith, Robert M. Kvasnicka -- Doing Indian history / Francis Paul Prucha -- I. Major resources of the National Archives and Record Service for Indian Historical Research : history, use, and potential of the records -- Indian-related records in the National Archives and their use : observations over a third of a century / Oliver W. Holmes -- Special study of the appraisal of Indian records / Carmelita S. Ryan -- II. Indian assimilation : the nineteenth century -- From civilization to removal : early American Indian policy / Herman J. Viola -- The Board of Indian Commissioners and ethnocentric reform, 1878-1893 / Henry E. Fritz -- III. Indian collections outside the National archives and Records Service -- Artifacts and pictures as documents in the history of Indian-white relations / John C. Ewers -- Major Indian record collections in Oklahoma / Angie Debo -- The archives of the Duke Projects in American Indian Oral History / C. Gregory Crampton -- IV. The role of the military -- The frontier army : John Ford or Arthur Penn? / Robert M. Utley -- V. Recent research on Indian reservation policy -- The reservation policy : too little and too late / William T. Hagan -- John Collier and the controversy over the Wheeler-Howard bill / Kenneth R. Philp -- VI. Some aspects of twentieth-century federal Indian policy -- John Collier and the Indian New Deal : an assessment / Lawrence C. Kelley -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1972 / Louis R. Bruce -- Appendix : National Archives resource papers.