Native American and Indigenous Studies

Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on political moments when viable alternatives to federal assimilation policies arose.

The third edition of this landmark work adds forty new documents, which cover the significant developments in American Indian affairs since 1988.

Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service (USIS), now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying out U.S. treaty and trust obligations to American Indians, but it also sought to "civilize" and assimilate them. In Federal Fathers and Mothers, Cathleen Cahill offers the first in-depth social history of the agency during the height of its assimilation efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A collection of first-hand accounts from individuals who had leading roles in Indian-White relations. A key reference for the modern Indian experience.

What might we learn from Native American experiences with schools to help us forge a new vision of the democratic ideal-one that respects, protects, and promotes diversity and human rights? In this fascinating portrait of American Indian education over the past century, the authors critically evaluate U.S. education policies and practices, from early 20th-century federal incarnations of colonial education through the contemporary standards movement.

This groundbreaking work is the first major study of United States Indian policy during the landmark years of the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies.

This text discusses the warriors of World War II and their new attitudes, the Indian Claims Commission and the Zimmerman Plan, the Truman Fair Deal and the Hoover Task Force Report, Commissioner Dillion S. Myer and the subject of Eisenhowerism, House Concurrent Resolution 108 and the Eighty-third Congress, public Law 280 and state interests versus the rights of indians, the relocation program and urbanization, Commissioner Glenn L. Emmons and economic assistance, and relocation in retrospect.

The Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 sought to restore self-government to peoples whose community affairs had long been administered by outsiders. This book explores whether that bold ambition was actually realized.

This informative guide thoroughly discusses the powers of Indian tribes; civil and criminal jurisdiction on Indian reservations; Indian hunting, fishing, and water rights; taxation in Indian country; the Indian Civil Rights Act; the Indian Child Welfare Act; and tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians.