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Saving the Reservation - Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian (Paperback, 2nd)
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Saving the Reservation - Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian (Paperback, 2nd)
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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. Born into a chief’s family and
raised on the Coeur d’Alene reservation in northern Idaho, Garry
rose to chairmanship of his tribal council, president of the
Affiliated Tribes of the Northwest Indians, and leadership of NCAI.
He was the first Native American elected to the Idaho House and
Senate. Handsome, personable, and articulate, Garry traveled
constantly to urge Indian tribes to hold onto their land, develop
economic resources, and educate their young. In a turbulent decade,
Garry elevated Indians to political and social participation in
American life, and set in motion forces that underlie Indian
relations today.
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