Research Catalog

Title

Reconfiguring the reservation : the Nez Perces, Jicarilla Apaches, and the Dawes Act / Emily Greenwald.

Author

Greenwald, Emily, 1965-

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

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Description

x, 186 p. : ill. , maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Reconfiguring the Reservation is a story about Indian agency, negotiation, and resistance to an imposed federal policy. Greenwald traces the Nez Perces' and Jicarilla Apaches' experiences with the 1887 General Allotment Act, also known as the Dawes Act. This legislation sought to assimilate Indians into the American mainstream by dividing collectively controlled reservations into individually owned allotments of land. Once Indians had private property, reformers reasoned, they would practice agriculture and eventually adopt "American" economic and natural rules."--Jacket.

Subject

• United States
• Indians of North America > Land tenure
• Nez Percé Indian Reservation (Idaho) > History
• Jicarilla Indian Reservation (N.M.) > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Spatial control, allotment in severalty, and the 1887 Dawes Act -- Nez Perce culture, geography, and history, 1880-87 -- The Dawes Act on the Nez Perce Reservation -- The search for a Jicarilla homeland -- Dividing and redividing the Jicarilla Apache reservation -- Indian agency and spatial control.

ISBN

0826324088 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001005194

OCLC

47870126

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library