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Laddar... Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)av C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. At 170 pages I came away from this slim monograph with the sense that it was really an essay that had run on for too long, but it is a useful examination (with particular emphasis on the career of Ely Parker) of the alternatives to the "assimilate or else" policies that came to be imposed on the First Nations at the height of the Gilded Age. Parker's particular tragedy might be that the reforms he instituted at the Office of Indian Affairs in the name of efficiency made it easier to strip the Indians of land, culture and self-respect. Also note that the author has no use for the pious belief that the United States was a limited government in the 19th century; there were no limits when it came to pursuing empire and sovereignty. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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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. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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