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The vanishing American : white attitudes and U.S. Indian policy / Brian W. Dippie.

Title
The vanishing American : white attitudes and U.S. Indian policy / Brian W. Dippie.
Author
Dippie, Brian W.
Publication
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1982.

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Description
xvii, 423 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Traces the turns of U.S. Indian policy and the effects of white social attitudes on Indian assimilation.
Subject
  • Public opinion > United States > History
  • Indians of North America > Government relations
  • Indians of North America > History
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
And then there was none: a "bold, but wasting race" of men -- Isolation: Indian policy before the Civil War -- The non-vanishing American -- Assimilation: Indian policy through World War I -- And then there was non: a superseded race -- Choice: Indian policy through World War II.
ISBN
0819550566 :
LCCN
^^^82002804^
OCLC
8193939
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library