Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (1833-89), clergyman turned
reformer, was one of the foremost advocates and activists in the
late-nineteenth-century movement to reform U.S. Indian policy. Very
few individuals possessed the influence Painter wielded in the
movement, and Painter himself published numerous pamphlets for the
Indian Rights Association (IRA) on the Southern Utes, Eastern
Cherokees, California Indians, and other Native peoples. Yet this
is the first book to fully consider his unique role and substantial
contribution. Born in Virginia, Painter spent most of his life in
Great Barrington, Massachusetts, commuting to New York City and
Washington, D.C., initially as an agent of the American Missionary
Association (AMA), later as an appointed member of the Board of
Indian Commissions (BIC), and most significant, as the Indian
Rights Association's D.C. agent. In these capacities he lobbied
presidents and Congress for reform, conducted extensive
investigations on reservations, and shaped deliberations in such
reform bodies as the BIC and the influential Lake Mohonk
conferences. Mining an extraordinary wealth of archival material,
Valerie Sherer Mathes crafts a compelling account of Painter as a
skilled negotiator with Indians and policymakers and as a tireless
investigator who traveled to far-flung reservations, corresponded
with countless Indian agents, and drafted scrupulously researched
reports on his findings. Recounted in detail, his many adventures
and behind-the-scenes activities - promoting education, striving to
prevent the removal of the Southern Utes from Colorado,
investigating reservation fraud, working to save the Piegans of
Montana from starvation - afford a clear picture of Painter's
importance to the overall reform effort to incorporate Native
Americans into the fabric of American life. No other book so
effectively captures the day-to-day and exhausting work of a single
individual on the front lines of reform. Like most of his fellow
advocates, Painter was an unapologetic assimilationist, a man of
his times whose story is a key chapter in the history of the Indian
reform movement.
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