The Great Father
eBook - ePub

The Great Father

The United States Government and the American Indians (Abridged Edition)

  1. 426 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Great Father

The United States Government and the American Indians (Abridged Edition)

About this book

The Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. This abridged one-volume edition follows the structure of the two-volume edition, eliminating only the footnotes and some of the detail. 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Maps and Tables
  6. Preface to the Abridged Edition
  7. Preface to the Original Edition
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Prologue: The Colonial Experience
  10. 1. The Revolutionary War and the Years Following
  11. 2. Regulating Trade and Intercourse
  12. 3. Civilization and Education
  13. 4. The Policy of Indian Removal
  14. 5. Emigration of the Tribes
  15. 6. The Aftermath of Removal
  16. 7. American Expansion and Indian Affairs
  17. 8. Developments in the West
  18. 9. The Civil War Years
  19. 10. The Peace Policy
  20. 11. Military Challenge
  21. 12. Indian Reservations
  22. 13. The New Christian Reformers
  23. 14. The Reservations and Reform
  24. 15. Severalty, Law, and Education
  25. 16. The Indian Service
  26. 17. The Indian Territory
  27. 18. The Nation’s Wards
  28. 19. Education and Health
  29. 20. The Indians’ Land
  30. 21. An Indian New Deal
  31. 22. Rounding Out the New Deal
  32. 23. The Termination Era
  33. 24. A New Day for the Indians
  34. 25. Indian Self-Determination
  35. 26. The Indians: America’s Unfinished Business
  36. Appendix A Commissioners of Indian Affairs
  37. Appendix B Indian Population
  38. Suggested Readings
  39. Index
  40. Back Cover