A final promise : the campaign to assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920 / Frederick E. Hoxie ; with a new preface by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoxie, Frederick E., 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Government relations--1869-1934.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 350 pages )

Edition:

Bison books ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This is an important book. In the latter nineteenth century, diverse and influential elements in white America combined forces to settle the 'Indian question' through assimilation. . . . The results were the essentially treaty-breaking Dawes Act of 1887, related legislation, and dubious court decisions. Schoolteachers and missionaries were dispatched to the reservations en masse. Eventual 'citizenship' without functional rights was given Native Americans; the Indians lost two-thirds of reservation land as it had existed before the assimilationist campaign. . . . With insight and skill that go well beyond craft, Hoxie has admirably defined issues and motives, placed economic/political/social interaction into cogent perspective, brought numerous Anglo and Indian individuals and organizations to life, and set forth important lessons."-Choice.

Notes:

"Bison books"--P. [i].

Originally published: c1984.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610374113

9781496208217

1496208218

9781280374111

128037411X

9780803200968

080320096X

OCLC:

1024277651