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Title

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

Author

Prucha, Francis Paul

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1984.

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Description

2 v. (xxxii, 1302 p., [52] p. of plates) : ill.; 24 cm.

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.

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Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. [1232]-1257.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

0803236689 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^83016837^

OCLC

9918967

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Harvard Library