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Crooked Paths to Allotment - The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War (Paperback)
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Crooked Paths to Allotment - The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War (Paperback)
Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
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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. In these
moments, Native American reformers and their white allies
challenged coercive practices and offered visions for policies that
might have allowed Indigenous nations to adapt at their own pace
and on their own terms. Examining the contests over Indian policy
from Reconstruction through the Gilded Age, Genetin-Pilawa reveals
the contingent state of American settler colonialism.
Genetin-Pilawa focuses on reformers and activists, including
Tonawanda Seneca Ely S. Parker and Council Fire editor Thomas A.
Bland, whose contributions to Indian policy debates have heretofore
been underappreciated. He reveals how these men and their allies
opposed such policies as forced land allotment, the elimination of
traditional cultural practices, mandatory boarding school education
for Indian youth, and compulsory participation in the market
economy. Although the mainstream supporters of assimilation
successfully repressed these efforts, the ideas and policy
frameworks they espoused established a tradition of dissent against
disruptive colonial governance.
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