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Author Rand, Jacki Thompson.

Title Kiowa humanity and the invasion of the state / Jacki Thompson Rand
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents The American problem -- The Kiowa scheme of life -- Values of the state and U.S. Indian policy -- Young Kiowa men, Kiowa social values, and the politics of rations -- Fictions of nineteenth-century American assimilation policy -- Households of humanity -- Conclusion
Summary Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State illuminates the ways in which Kiowas on the southern plains dealt with the U.S. government?s efforts to control them after they were forced onto a reservation by an 1867 treaty. The overarching effects of colonial domination resembled those suffered by other Native groups at the time?a considerable loss of land and population decline, as well as a continual erosion of the Kiowas? political, cultural, economic, and religious sovereignty and traditions. Although readily acknowledging these far-reaching consequences, Jacki Thompson Rand sees the root i
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index
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Subject Kiowa philosophy.
Kiowa Indians -- History
Kiowa Indians -- Government relations
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Kiowa Indians
Kiowa Indians -- Government relations
Kiowa philosophy
Politics and government
Race relations
Social policy
SUBJECT United States -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547
United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803239715
0803239718
9786611213497
661121349X