Author:
Prucha, Francis Paul.
Imprint:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1981.
Descriptionix, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Doing indian history. - New approaches to the study of the administration of indian policy. - Federal indian policy in United States history. - The dawning of a new era: the spirit of reform and American Indian policy. - The image of the indian in pre-Civil War America. - The United States Army and the fur trade. - Lewis Cass and American indian policy. - Indian removal and the great American desert. - Thomas L. McKenney and the New York Indian Board. - Andrew Jackson's indian policy: a reassessment. - American indian policy in the 1840s: visions of reform. - Scientific racism and indian policy. - The Board of Indian Commissioners and the delegates of the five tribes. - A "friend of the indian" in Milwaukee: Mrs. O. J. Hiles and the Wisconsin Indian Association. - Indian policy reform and American Protestantism, 1880-1900. - The decline of the Christian reformers.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Recommended in Best Books for Academic Libraries ; Books for College Libraries
