The great father : the United States government and the American Indians / Francis Paul Prucha.

Author
Prucha, Francis Paul [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1995]
Description
2 v. in 1 (xxxii, 1302 p., [52] p. of plates) : ill. ; 24 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Notes
Unabridged re-issue of c1984 ed.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [1231]-1257) and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • The Colonial experience (Images of the Indians
  • Christianization
  • Invasion of the Indian lands
  • Trade relations
  • British imperial policy)
  • Formative years, peace after the Revolution (The policy of the Continental Congress
  • Early treaties and ordinances
  • The Constitution and Indian policy
  • Indian rights to the land)
  • War and defense (Subjugating the Indians northwest of the Ohio River
  • Unrest and retaliation in the South
  • Probing the New West
  • The War of 1812
  • American dominion
  • North, West, and South)
  • Trade and intercourse laws (Legislation to control the frontier whites
  • Regulating the trade in furs
  • The crusade against ardent spirits
  • Crimes in the Indian country
  • Removal of intruders on Indian lands)
  • Government trading Houses : factories (Beginnings of the factory system
  • Jeffersonian expansion
  • Attack and support
  • The end of the factories)
  • Civilization and education (Civilization
  • Agriculture and domestic industry
  • Christinization
  • The role of Thomas L. McKenney
  • The Civilization Fund and Indian schools
  • Jedidiah Morse's report)
  • The Indian Department (Superintendents and agents
  • Headquarters organization
  • Assistance from military commanders
  • Presents and annuities
  • Peace medals and delegations)
  • Indian removal. The policy of Indian removal (Formulation of the policy
  • Andrew Jackson and the removal
  • Motivation for removal
  • Controversy and debate
  • The Cherokee cases)
  • The emigration of the Southern tribes (Choctaws
  • Creeks
  • Chickasaws
  • Investigating the lands in the west
  • Seminoles and the Florida war
  • Cherokees and the Trail of Tears)
  • Removel of the Northern Indians (Clearing the Old Northwest
  • Potawatomi dispersal
  • Sacs and Foxes and the Black Hawk War
  • Other tribes
  • New York Indians
  • The role of the traders)
  • The emigrant Indians in the West (Transplanted Indian nations
  • Military defense of the frontier
  • Benevolence and reform)
  • New structures and programs (Development of the Indian Department
  • Proposals for an Indian state
  • Annuities and liquor regulation)
  • American expansion and the reservation system. The Indian office : men and policies (Department of the Interior
  • Commissioners of the 1850s
  • An expanded Indian Department
  • Perennial problems : annuities and liquor
  • The challenge of scientific racism)
  • A pathway to the Pacific (Colonization of the Western tribes
  • Kansas-Nebraska and the Indians
  • Military action on the Plains)
  • Texas, New Mexico, and Utah (The Indian situation in Texas
  • Reservations for Texas Indians
  • Indian affairs in New Mexico
  • Indians, Mormons, and Gentiles)
  • California, Oregon, and Washington (A reservation policy for California
  • Indian affiars in the Oregon country
  • The Indians of Washington territory)
  • The Civil War years. The Southern Indians and the Confederate States (Tribes in the Indian territory
  • Indian treaties with the Confederacy
  • War in the Indian territory
  • Peace council at Fort Smith
  • Reconstruction treaties)
  • Indian conflicts : a series of other wars (Sioux uprising in Minnesota
  • War in the Southwest
  • Bosque Redondo
  • The great experiment
  • Sand Creek)
  • The Indian system and its critics (Commissioner Dole and the reservation system
  • Protests against the Indian system
  • Proposals for military control)
  • The peace policy. Stirrings of reform (Doolittle Committee
  • Indian Peace Commission
  • Civilization for the Indians
  • Reform impulses)
  • Structures of the peace policy (The board of Indian commissioners
  • Churches and the agencies
  • Failure of the structures
  • The end of treaty making)
  • Military challenge (Indian wars
  • The Army and the Indian
  • The transfer issue
  • The end of the military phase)
  • Reservation policy (Consolidation of reservations
  • Indian resistance to removal
  • Revision of reservation policy)
  • The Indian Service : policies and administration)
  • An array of commissioners
  • Fraud and the "Indian Rings"
  • Inspectors and special agents
  • Policies and programs
  • Law and order)
  • The new christian reformers (Reform organizations
  • Christian humanitarianism
  • Americanization
  • Other voices)
  • The reservations and reform (Dismantling the Great Sioux Reserve
  • Mission Indians of California
  • Promotion of civilization
  • Continuing liquor problems
  • Opposition to reservations)
  • Severalty, law and citizenship (The drive for a General Allotment Law
  • The Dawes Act
  • Leasing of allotments
  • Renaming the Indians
  • Law for the Indians
  • Citizenship)
  • Education for patriotic citizenship (Promotion of Indian schools
  • Carlisle Indian Industrial School
  • Thomas Jefferson Morgan and Indian schools
  • Conflict over the contract schools
  • Competition from the wild west shows)
  • The Indian Service : bureaucratization and reform (Growth of the Indian Service
  • Civil Service reform
  • The lesson of Wounded Knee
  • Replacing the political agents)
  • Territorial expansion (The drive for territorial organization
  • Invasion of the Indian territory
  • Defeat of the five civilized tribes
  • Oklahoma statehood)
  • The nation's wards. The Indian Office : the Indians' guardian (Progressives in the Indian Office
  • The decline of the christian reformers
  • Administrative efficiency
  • Liquor and Peyote)
  • The 1920s : the guardian on trial (Continuity and development
  • The Bureau under siege
  • Investigations and reports)
  • Education for self-support (The Indian School System
  • Public schools for Indians
  • Courses of study
  • Success and failure)
  • Concern for Indian health (The condition of Indian health
  • Initial campaigns against disease
  • A continuing but insufficient fight
  • The critics)
  • The Indians' land (Continuing allotment
  • Modifications of the Dawes Act
  • Competency and fee patents
  • Land policy in the 1920s
  • Forestry and irrigation
  • Appraisal of the Allotment Policy)
  • Indians of Oklahoma and New York (Final dissolution of the five civilized tribes
  • Removal of restrictions
  • The scandal of the probate courts
  • Indians schools in Oklahoma
  • The Indians of New York State)
  • The Indian new Deal. Transition : the Hoover years (New officials
  • Progress and reform
  • Failures
  • Attacks and rebuttals)
  • The new reform (John Collier, commissioner
  • Conservation and relief
  • New Deal measures
  • John Collier's reform proposal
  • The Wheeler-Howard (Indian reorganization) Act
  • Rounding out the New Deal (Extending the Indian Reorganization Act
  • Indian arts and crafts
  • Continuing educational reform
  • Health programs
  • Economic development
  • The bureaucracy)
  • The end of the Indian New Deal (John Collier's Travail
  • Congressional attacks
  • The Indians and World War II
  • The legacy of the Indian New Deal)
  • Termination. The postwar years (The Indian Claims Commission
  • Postwar readjustment
  • The approach of termination
  • Bureau reorganization)
  • Termination in action (Legislative action
  • Termination laws
  • Reversal of policy)
  • Programs for Indians (Education for cultural change
  • Transfer of Indian health services
  • Relocation)
  • Indian self-determination. Turnabout in the 1960s (The new trail
  • The war against poverty
  • New emphasis on Indian self-determination
  • The state of Indian education
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1968)
  • Signs of the New Day (Nixon's Indian Policy
  • The New Indians and red power
  • Turnover and turmoil in the BIA
  • Religious freedom
  • Alaska native claims
  • Menominee restoration)
  • Advances in Indian rights and responsibilities (Indian education
  • Indian health
  • Indian Child Welfare Act
  • Indian Self-Determination Act
  • American Indian Policy Review Commission)
  • Legal and judicial maneuvering (Land claims and conflicts
  • Water rights
  • Fishing and hunting rights
  • Inherent sovereignty and tribal jurisdiction)
  • The American Indians in 1980 (Urban Indians and nonrecognized tribes
  • Federal programs for Indians
  • Building an economic base
  • Trust responsibility : the Great Father Redivivus
  • America's unfinished business)
  • Appendixes (Appendix A (Presidents, Secretaries of War and Interior, and Commissioners of Indian Affairs)
  • Appendix B (Indian population)
  • Appendix C (Indian tribal entities that have a government-to-government relationship with the United States)
  • Appendix D (Nomenclature of the Bureau of Indian Affairs).
ISBN
0803287348 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^95127983^
OCLC
32270357
RCP
H - S
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