Title Crooked paths to allotment : the fight over federal Indian policy after the Civil war / C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 228 pages) Series First peoples First peoples (2010) Contents Introduction -- Confining Indians -- Tonawanda Seneca and the assault on tribal sovereignty, 1838-1861 -- Peace policy precursors, 1861-1868 -- Ely Parker's moment, 1869-1871 -- A contentious peace policy, 1871-1875 -- Thomas Bland's moment, 1878-1886 -- The allotment controversy, 1882-1889 -- John Collier's moment, 1928-1935 Summary "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"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and index Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed January 29, 2018) Subject Indians of North America -- Land tenure. Indians of North America -- Government relations. Indian allotments -- United States -- History Allotment of land -- United States -- History Self-determination, National -- United States -- History Indians -- Land tenure. Indian land transfers. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. HISTORY -- Native American. Indians -- Land tenure Indian land transfers Allotment of land Indian allotments Indians of North America -- Government relations Indians of North America -- Land tenure Politics and government Race relations Self-determination, National Social policy SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410 United States -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547 United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0807837415 9780807837412 9781469601489 1469601486

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