A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920. Frederick E. Hoxie

A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920



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A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920 Frederick E. Hoxie ebook
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Page: 350
ISBN: 9780803273276


"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 ...

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