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
James Dempsey estimates that some four hundred Indians from Western Canada served during the Great W...
This slender volume lays out the story of the creation, evolution, and demise of the mid-nineteenth-...
In mid-October of 1855, Blackfoot Treaty commissioner Isaac 1. Stevens, governor of Washington Terri...
God -read the brass buttons on the Indian police uniforms, God helps those who help themselves (p....
The story of the Black Hills, recounted in this very readable chronicle by Edward Lazarus-- son of A...
In 1879 the buffalo disappeared from the Canadian North-West, leaving the Plains Indians in an extre...
Rapid change, passionate convictions, acute regional differences, ethnic conflict, and an army looki...
Review of: With Good Intentions: Quaker Work among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870\u27s. M...
Chicsa\u27s People, or the Chickasaw, for centuries farmed and hunted in their traditional homeland ...
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...
The Nimiipuu are most associated with the Columbia Basin rather than the Great Plains. Yet some Nimi...
During the 1840s and 1850s, more than 300,000 traders and overland emigrants followed the Platte and...
Tribal histories usually rely upon archival documents and oral traditions for source material. This ...
Review of: John Collier\u27s Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920-1954. Philp, Kenneth R
James Dempsey estimates that some four hundred Indians from Western Canada served during the Great W...
This slender volume lays out the story of the creation, evolution, and demise of the mid-nineteenth-...
In mid-October of 1855, Blackfoot Treaty commissioner Isaac 1. Stevens, governor of Washington Terri...
God -read the brass buttons on the Indian police uniforms, God helps those who help themselves (p....
The story of the Black Hills, recounted in this very readable chronicle by Edward Lazarus-- son of A...
In 1879 the buffalo disappeared from the Canadian North-West, leaving the Plains Indians in an extre...
Rapid change, passionate convictions, acute regional differences, ethnic conflict, and an army looki...
Review of: With Good Intentions: Quaker Work among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870\u27s. M...
Chicsa\u27s People, or the Chickasaw, for centuries farmed and hunted in their traditional homeland ...
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...
The Nimiipuu are most associated with the Columbia Basin rather than the Great Plains. Yet some Nimi...
During the 1840s and 1850s, more than 300,000 traders and overland emigrants followed the Platte and...
Tribal histories usually rely upon archival documents and oral traditions for source material. This ...
Review of: John Collier\u27s Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920-1954. Philp, Kenneth R
James Dempsey estimates that some four hundred Indians from Western Canada served during the Great W...
This slender volume lays out the story of the creation, evolution, and demise of the mid-nineteenth-...
In mid-October of 1855, Blackfoot Treaty commissioner Isaac 1. Stevens, governor of Washington Terri...