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

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: print
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.