The great father : the United States government and the American Indians / Francis Paul Prucha.
1984
KIE178 .P78 1984 (Mapit)
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Title
The great father : the United States government and the American Indians / Francis Paul Prucha.
Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1984.
Description
2 volumes (xxxii, 1302 pages, 52 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
v. 1. The colonial experience. Formative years. Indian removal. American expansion and the reservation system. The Civil War years. The peace policy
v. 2. Americanizing the American Indians. The nation's wards. The Indian New Deal. Termination. Indian self-determination.
v. 2. Americanizing the American Indians. The nation's wards. The Indian New Deal. Termination. Indian self-determination.
Summary
The Great Father was widely praised and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1232-1257) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Prucha, Francis Paul. Great father. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1984
Call Number
KIE178 .P78 1984
Language
English
Awards
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for nonfiction, 1985.
ISBN
0803236689 (alkaline paper)
9780803236684 (alkaline paper)
0803287348
9780803287341
9780803236684 (alkaline paper)
0803287348
9780803287341
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