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Author Fahey, John, 1919-2004.

Title Saving the reservation : Joe Garry and the battle to be Indian / John Fahey
Published Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Emergency! -- "The chance of our Indian lifetimes" -- The crucial year -- Turning points -- Roots: the Coeur d'Alenes -- Boy to man -- Toward a victory of sorts -- The Garry era ends -- Money-and its consequences -- "I enjoyed working with the people."
Summary "Joseph R. Garry (1910-1975), a Coeur d'Alene Indian, served six terms as president of the National Congress of American Indians in the 1950s. He led the battles to compel the federal government to honor treaties and landownership and dominated an era in government-Indian relations little attended by historians. Firmly believing that forced assimilation of Indians and termination of federal trusteeship over Native Americans and their reservations would doom Indian cultures, Garry had his greatest success as a leader in uniting American Indian tribes to fend off Congress's plan to abandon Indian citizens."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-215) and index
Notes English
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Subject Garry, Joe, 1910-1975.
Garry, Joe, 1910-1975
National Congress of American Indians -- History
National Congress of American Indians
Coeur d'Alene Indians -- Biography
Indian activists -- United States -- Biography
Indian civic leaders -- United States -- Biography
Indians of North America -- Politics and government.
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1934-
Self-determination, National -- United States
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Coeur d'Alene Indians
Indian activists
Indian civic leaders
Indians of North America -- Government relations
Indians of North America -- Politics and government
Self-determination, National
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021694655
ISBN 9780295801261
0295801263