A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920

by Frederick E. Hoxie

Book Overview

"This is an important book. In the latter nineteenth century, diverse and influential elements in white America combined forces to settle the 'Indian question' through assimilation. . . . The results were the essentially treaty-breaking Dawes Act of 1887, related legislation, and dubious court decisions. Schoolteachers and missionaries were dispatched to the reservations en masse. Eventual 'citizenship' without functional rights was given Native Americans;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803273274
• ISBN13: 9780803273276
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.0"