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Indigenous citizens : Native Americans' fight for sovereignty, 1776-2025 / Paul C. Rosier.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - New Acquisitions Circulation desk KF8396 .R67 2026
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosier, Paul C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Government relations.
- Indians of North America--Civil rights.
- Sovereignty.
- sovereignty.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2026]
- Summary:
- A sweeping history of Native Americans' fraught relationship with United States citizenship and their efforts to protect tribal sovereignty.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one: contesting assimilation, 1776-1924
- "It was enough that they were Indians": racial conflict in the early republic, 1776-1829
- "We cannot consent to be under your government": ethnic cleansing during the "Removal Period," 1830-1838
- "The citizenship plan": Native people's fight for autonomy, 1838-1887
- "Into the swim of American citizenship": forced allotment in Indian Country, 1887-1917
- "The club of white man's wisdom": forced assimilation in Indian Boarding Schools, 1887-1917
- "For the honor of the race and the good of the country": creating a dual citizenship, 1911-1928
- Part two: demanding their rights, 1924-2025
- "Citizen Indians, get busy": the fight for citizenship and sovereignty, 1924-1945
- "No Indians and dogs allowed": Indigenous citizens' fight for civil rights, 1945-1951
- "The great contradiction of dual citizenship": the resistance against termination, 1945-1961
- "It is up to you to use your rights": Indigenous citizens' fight for Treaty Rights, 1961-1974
- "Those dumb Indians ought to be shot": white backlash to Indigenous Sovereignty, 1974-2000
- "Dual citizens of this country": Indigenous politics in the twenty-first century
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-330) and index
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Burt fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781324105879
- 1324105879
- OCLC:
- 1572418460
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