The Indians of the Southwest - A Century of Development Under the United States (Paperback, New Ed)

With the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 the United States became responsible for the administration of some 125,000 Indians in addition to those already within the national boundaries. The new tribes included many peoples known only to traders and trappers who had ventured into the trackless stretches of the West. This book considers the hundred-year record of federal relations with these Indians.
The first two decades of United States control are seen as a period of large-scale humanitarian purpose, flawed in many cases by racial prejudice, official corruption, or outright cruelty and abuse. New policies, under Ulysses S. Grant, and an awakening of public conscience in the 1870s and 1880s brought a second major period, characterized by the system of reservations.
Later chapters of the book deal with twentieth-century changes, particularly with agents, schools, and medical services, all carefully analyzed by the author, who was a member of the Meriam Commission in 1926-27. The record reveals in realistic detail the problems of the government and the tenacity of the tribes in resisting white settlement and retaining their own culture and way of life.

General

Imprint:	University of Oklahoma Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Civilization of the American Indian Series
Release date:	September 1949
First published:	September 1949
Authors:	Edward Everett Dale
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	334
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8061-1314-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-8061-1314-6
Barcode:	9780806113142

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