Add to ORKGGod -read the brass buttons on the Indian police uniforms, God helps those who help themselves (p. 61). The picture stamped on the button showed what was intended to be an Indian farmer diligently turning the earth wrong side up (p. 57) behind a horse-drawn plow. Thrift, hard work, individualism, promise of a better life, the great American myth of the yeoman farmer-that little clasp packed a lot of message. Samek\u27s book details how both Canadian and American bureaucrats, humanitarians philanthropists, and missionaries tried mightily to instill that very message in the hearts and minds of their Blackfoot Indian wards at the tum of this century-and how, and why, the effort largely failed
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The admirable Chelsea House Publishers\u27 series for young adults treats fifty-eight tribal groups ...
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Review of: John Collier\u27s Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920-1954. Philp, Kenneth R
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Until recently, prevailing wisdom in academic circles held that nomadic, buffalo hunting tribes on t...
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James Dempsey estimates that some four hundred Indians from Western Canada served during the Great W...
The Nimiipuu are most associated with the Columbia Basin rather than the Great Plains. Yet some Nimi...
This slender volume lays out the story of the creation, evolution, and demise of the mid-nineteenth-...
In this work Meyer draws primarily upon the substantial resources available from the colonial U.S. b...
Medicine That Walks recounts the impact of the federal government\u27s Indian policy on the health a...
The admirable Chelsea House Publishers\u27 series for young adults treats fifty-eight tribal groups ...
God -read the brass buttons on the Indian police uniforms, God helps those who help themselves (p....
Review of: John Collier\u27s Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920-1954. Philp, Kenneth R
The story of the Black Hills, recounted in this very readable chronicle by Edward Lazarus-- son of A...
Chicsa\u27s People, or the Chickasaw, for centuries farmed and hunted in their traditional homeland ...
Review of: With Good Intentions: Quaker Work among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870\u27s. M...
Until recently, prevailing wisdom in academic circles held that nomadic, buffalo hunting tribes on t...
By exploring how nineteenth-century Canadian and American missionaries wrote about Indians, this boo...
In 1879 the buffalo disappeared from the Canadian North-West, leaving the Plains Indians in an extre...
Review of: Indians and Bureaucrats: Administering the Reservation Policy during the Civil War. Danzi...
James Dempsey estimates that some four hundred Indians from Western Canada served during the Great W...
The Nimiipuu are most associated with the Columbia Basin rather than the Great Plains. Yet some Nimi...
This slender volume lays out the story of the creation, evolution, and demise of the mid-nineteenth-...
In this work Meyer draws primarily upon the substantial resources available from the colonial U.S. b...
Medicine That Walks recounts the impact of the federal government\u27s Indian policy on the health a...
The admirable Chelsea House Publishers\u27 series for young adults treats fifty-eight tribal groups ...