Not long after the white man stepped ashore in North America he
began killing Indians and pushing those that survived farther and
farther west. And what of his conscience? Well, he invented a
convenient explanation: Indians are a vanishing race, doomed to
extinction anyway.
That belief not only persisted, writes historian Brian Dippie,
but it also spread throughout American culture. Soon the "vanishing
Indian" appeared in science, literature, art, popular culture, and,
most importantly, federal policy.
"The assumption that the Indians are a vanishing race has about
it the quality of self-fulfilling prophecy," Dippie writes. In this
classic study, first published in 1982, he traces the origins of
this assumption and documents its insidious effects on U.S. policy
toward Indians from the beginning of the nation's history through
the Indian New Deal of the 1930s. He describes its role in early
attempts at civilization and education, segregation of Indians west
of the Mississippi, post-Civil War reform, the Dawes Act and
allotment, the gradualism of early twentieth-century policy, the
reform movement of the 1920s, John Collier's Indian Reorganization
Act, and into the 1970s.
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