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Battle for the BIA : G.E.E. Lindquist and the missionary crusade against John Collier / David W. Daily.

Title: Battle for the BIA : G.E.E. Lindquist and the missionary crusade against John Collier / David W. Daily.
Author: Daily, David W., 1965-
Publication: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2004.

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Description

xii, 216 p., [6] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Beginning in the 1920s, John Collier emerged as part of a rising group of activists who celebrated Indian cultures and challenged assimilation policies. As commissioner of Indian affairs for twelve years, he pushed legislation to preserve tribal sovereignty, creating a crisis for Protestant reformers and their sense of custodial authority over Indians. Although historians have viewed missionary opponents of Collier as faceless adversaries, one of their leading advocates was Gustavus Elmer Emanuel Lindquist, a representative of the Home Missions Council of the Federal Council of Churches. An itinerant field agent and lobbyist, Lindquist was in contact with reformers, philanthropists, government officials, other missionaries, and leaders in practially every Indian community across the contry, and he brought every ounce of his influence to bear in a full-fledged assault on Collier's reforms." "Daily traces the shifts in Lindquist's thought regarding the assimilation question over the course of half a century; and in revealing the efforts of this one individual, he sheds new light on the whole assimilation controversy. He explicates the role that Christian Indian leaders played in both fostering and resisting the changes that Lindquist advocated, and he shows how Protestant leaders held on to authority in Indian affairs during Collier's tenure as commissioner." "This survey of Lindquist's career raises important issues regarding tribal rights and the place of Native peoples in American society. It offers new insights into the domestic colonialism practiced by the United States as it tells of one of the great untold battles in the history of Indian affairs."--BOOK JACKET.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-207) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The making of an ardent assimilationist -- Indian dances and the defense of federal guardianship, 1920-1933 -- Collier's new deal for the missionaries, 1933-1934 -- Battle over the Wheeler-Howard Act, 1934 -- Struggle to redeem the BIA, 1935-1942 -- Crusade against wardship, 1942-1953.

ISBN

0816524378 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004008496

OCLC

54971850
SCSB-10437710

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