Francis Paul Prucha

The Great Father

The United States Government and the American Indians (Abridged Edition)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Great Father" was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. This abridged one-volume edition follows the structure of the two-volume edition, eliminating only the footnotes and some of the detail. It is a comprehensive history of the relations between the U.S. government and the Indians. Covering the two centuries from the Revolutionary War to 1980, the book traces the development of American Indian policy and the growth of the bureaucracy created to implement that policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1986
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780803287129
• ISBN-10: 0803287127
• Artikelnr.: 21248897

Autorenporträt

Francis Paul Prucha, S.J., a leading authority on American Indian policy and the author of more than a dozen other books, is an emeritus professor of history at Marquette University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents List of Maps and Tables
vii Preface to the Abridged Edition
viii Preface to the Original Edition
ix Acknowledgements
xii Prologue: The Colonial Experience
1 1. The Revolutionary War and the Years Following
13 2. Regulating Trade and Intercourse
31 3. Civilization and Education
48 4. The Policy of Indian Removal
64 5. Emigration of the Tribes
78 6. The Aftermath of Removal
94 7. American Expansion and Indian Affairs
108 8. Developments in the West
122 9. The Civil War Years
136 10. The Peace Policy
152 11. Military Challenge
167 12. Indian Reservations
181 13. The New Christian Reformers
198 14. The Reservations and Reform
211 15. Severalty
Law
and Education
224 16. The Indian Service
242 17. The Indian Territory
252 18. The Nation's Wards
263 19. Education and Health
280 20. The Indians' Land
295 21. An Indian New Deal
311 22. Rounding Out the New Deal
326 23. The Termination Era
340 24. A New Day for the Indians
357 25. Indian Self-Determination
374 26. The Indians: America's Unfinished Business
393 Appendix A Commissioners of Indian Affairs
403 Appendix B Indian Population
404 Suggested Readings
405 Index 407   Maps and Tables 1. United States Factory System
1795-1822
37 2. Land Cessions of the Five Civilized Tribes
81 3. Indian Land Cessions in the North
91 4. Location of Indians in the Indian Territory after Removal
96 5. The Indian Territory
1866-1888
142 6. Indian Reservations
1880
188 7. The Sioux Reservations
1890
215 8. Indian Lands and Communities
1971
382 Tables 1. Termination Acts
348 2. Urban Indians
1970 and 1980
394 3. Government-Wide Funding for Indian Programs
1980
397