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The vanishing American : White attitudes and U.S. Indian policy

Not long after the white man stepped ashore in North America he began killing Indians and pushing those that survived farther and farther west. And what of his conscience? Well, he invented a convenient explanation: Indians are a vanishing race, doomed to extinction anyway
Print Book, English, [1991], ©1982
University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., [1991], ©1982
History
xvii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780700605071, 070060507X
23765668
Their power has been broken: the Indian after the war of 1812
The anatomy of the vanishing American
The pathology of the vanishing American
Making good neighbors: segregation in Indian policy
A magnanimous act of interposition: Indian removal
Red, white, and black
Can he be saved? Environmentalism and evolutionism
He can be saved: agriculture and education
The convenient extinction doctrine: a crusade against the vanishing American
In search of the one true answer: Indian policy after the Civil War
A new order of things: the general Allotment Act
A matter of administration: Indian policy's confident years
We have come to the day of audit: the vanishing American returns
Now or never is the time: cultural extinction and the conservationist impulse. There will be no "later" for the Indian: amalgamation and the vanishing race
To each age its own Indian: the 1920s and the changing Indian
To plow up the Indian soul: the Indian Reorganization Act
It is only well begun: the New Deal legacy
Reprint. Originally published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©1982