The great father : the United States government and the American Indians
The Great Father was widely praised and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. 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
Print Book, English, ©1984
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©1984
2 volumes (xxxii, 1302 pages, 52 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm 2 volumes (xxxii, 1302 pages, [52] σ. of plates) : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780803236684, 9780803287341, 0803236689, 0803287348
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v. 1. The colonial experience. Formative years. Indian removal. American expansion and the reservation system. The Civil War years. The peace policy
v. 2. Americanizing the American Indians. The nation's wards. The Indian New Deal. Termination. Indian self-determination
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