The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy

by Brian W. Dippie

Book Overview

Not long after the white man stepped ashore in North America he began killing Indians and pushing those that survived farther and farther west. And what of his conscience? Well, he invented a convenient explanation: Indians are a vanishing race, doomed to extinction anyway.

That belief not only persisted, writes historian Brian Dippie, but it also spread throughout American culture. Soon the "vanishing Indian" appeared in science, literature,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070060507X
• ISBN13: 9780700605071
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"