The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Abridged Edition)

by Francis Paul Prucha

Book Overview

The Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. This abridged one-volume edition follows the structure of the two-volume edition, eliminating only the footnotes and some of the detail. It is a comprehensive history of the relations between the U.S. government and the Indians. Covering the two centuries from the Revolutionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803287127
• ISBN13: 9780803287129
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book Prucha knows her stuff

I bought this book because I was doing a research paper for a college class and was finding very little information on Native Americans during the periods of George Washington leading up until Andrew Jackson. This book gave me nearly everything I needed. It was a gold mind!!!

The source for the history of U.S.-tribal relations

The amount of detail and research that went into this book is amazing--I keep thinking I've learned the whole field and then I turn to the book and discover something new. The book is long but very readable, full of fascinating illustrative quotes, and is based on truly thorough knowledge of the primary sources. By the way, this paperback has the same pagination and material as the entire two volume hardcover. Be careful not to get the abridged version by mistake--it deletes footnotes which are key to using the book as a starting point for your own research.

The Great Father

Read this in College. Found it to be the best complete review of American Indian policy from colonial times to present.