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The Commissioners of Indian Affairs : the United States Indian Office and the making of federal Indian policy, 1824 to 2017 /

"For more than two hundred years, members of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of t he American government have had a hand in shaping the course of federal Indian policy, or the legal relationship between the American federal government and the now more than 570 federally recogn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeJong, David H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Salt Lake City, Utah] : University of Utah Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : the Commissioners of Indian Affairs
  • Aboriginal Indian title : the meaning of Indian Country
  • "Civilize or exterminate?" : formative Indian policy : 1775-1849
  • "Halfway across the continent" : beginning of a reservation policy : 1849-1861
  • "To conquer by kindness" : civil war and peace policy : 1861-1881
  • "Part of the great family" : allotment and civilization : 1881-1904
  • "The new Magna Charta" : carrying civilization to the Indians : 1905-1928
  • "Last chance for the Indians?" : reorganization and New Deal : 1928-1948
  • "Men, money, and management" : termination and relocation: 1948-1962
  • "Awakening the national conscience" : The call for self-determination : 1961-1980
  • "A federalist partnership" : Indian self-determination: 1981-2017
  • "A most anonymous position" : federal Indian policy and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.