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- Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
summary
Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on political moments when viable alternatives to federal assimilation policies arose. In these moments, Native American reformers and their white allies challenged coercive practices and offered visions for policies that might have allowed Indigenous nations to adapt at their own pace and on their own terms. Examining the contests over Indian policy from Reconstruction through the Gilded Age, Genetin-Pilawa reveals the contingent state of American settler colonialism.
Genetin-Pilawa focuses on reformers and activists, including Tonawanda Seneca Ely S. Parker and Council Fire editor Thomas A. Bland, whose contributions to Indian policy debates have heretofore been underappreciated. He reveals how these men and their allies opposed such policies as forced land allotment, the elimination of traditional cultural practices, mandatory boarding school education for Indian youth, and compulsory participation in the market economy. Although the mainstream supporters of assimilation successfully repressed these efforts, the ideas and policy frameworks they espoused established a tradition of dissent against disruptive colonial governance.
Genetin-Pilawa focuses on reformers and activists, including Tonawanda Seneca Ely S. Parker and Council Fire editor Thomas A. Bland, whose contributions to Indian policy debates have heretofore been underappreciated. He reveals how these men and their allies opposed such policies as forced land allotment, the elimination of traditional cultural practices, mandatory boarding school education for Indian youth, and compulsory participation in the market economy. Although the mainstream supporters of assimilation successfully repressed these efforts, the ideas and policy frameworks they espoused established a tradition of dissent against disruptive colonial governance.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- One: Confining Indians
- pp. 13-28
- Four: Ely Parker’s Moment, 1869–1871
- pp. 73-93
- Six: Thomas Bland’s Moment, 1878–1886
- pp. 112-133
- Seven: The Allotment Controversy, 1882–1889
- pp. 134-155
- Conclusion: John Collier’s Moment, 1928–1935
- pp. 156-164
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 197-218
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469601489
Related ISBN(s)
9780807835760, 9780807837412, 9781469617510
MARC Record
OCLC
966802761
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No