Kiowa humanity and the invasion of the state / Jacki Thompson Rand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rand, Jacki Thompson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kiowa philosophy.

Kiowa Indians--History.

Kiowa Indians.

Kiowa Indians--Government relations.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State illuminates the ways in which Kiowas on the southern plains dealt with the U.S. government's efforts to control them after they were forced onto a reservation by an 1867 treaty. The overarching effects of colonial domination resembled those suffered by other Native groups at the time-a considerable loss of land and population decline, as well as a continual erosion of the Kiowas' political, cultural, economic, and religious sovereignty and traditions. Although readily acknowledging these far-reaching consequences, Jacki Thompson Rand sees the root i

Contents:

The American problem

The Kiowa scheme of life

Values of the state and U.S. Indian policy

Young Kiowa men, Kiowa social values, and the politics of rations

Fictions of nineteenth-century American assimilation policy

Households of humanity

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-189) and index.

ISBN:

9786611213497

9781281213495

1281213497

9780803239715

0803239718

OCLC:

437200625