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Saving the reservation : Joe Garry and the battle to be Indian / John Fahey.
- Title
- Saving the reservation : Joe Garry and the battle to be Indian / John Fahey.
- Author
- Fahey, John, 1919-2004
- Publication
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2015.
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- Description
- xi, 220 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Joseph R. Garry (1910-1975), a Coeur d'Alene Indian, served six terms as president of the National Congress of American Indians in the 1950s. He led the battles to compel the federal government to honor treaties and landownership and dominated an era in government-Indian relations little attended by historians. Firmly believing that forced assimilation of Indians and termination of federal trusteeship over Native Americans and their reservations would doom Indian cultures, Garry had his greatest success as a leader in uniting American Indian tribes to fend off Congress's plan to abandon Indian citizens."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Garry, Joe, 1910-1975
- National Congress of American Indians > History
- Coeur d'Alene Indians > Biography
- Indian activists > United States > Biography
- Indian civic leaders > United States > Biography
- Indians of North America > Politics and government
- Indians of North America > Government relations > 1934-
- Self-determination, National > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-215) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Emergency! -- "The chance of our Indian lifetimes" -- The crucial year -- Turning points -- Roots: the Coeur d'Alenes -- Boy to man -- Toward a victory of sorts -- The Garry era ends -- Money--and its consequences -- "I enjoyed working with the people."
- ISBN
- 0295995378
- 9780295995373
- OCLC
- 907447892
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library