A Final Promise

The evolution of ideas & policy regarding 19th century American Indian-white relations is traced by analyzing the political, religious & intellectual attitudes of the influential non-Indians of the period.

Frederick E. Hoxie is director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library. He coedited (with Joan Mark) E. Jane Gay's With the Nez Percés: Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889–92 (Nebraska 1981).

Preface to the Bison Books Edition

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Preface

xvii

The Appeal of Assimilation

1

(40)

The Campaign Begins

41

(42)

The Transformation of the Indian Question

83

(32)

Frozen in Time and Space

115

(32)

The Emergence of a Colonial Land Policy

147

(42)

Schools for a Dependent People

189

(22)

Redefining Indian Citizenship

211

(28)

The Irony of Assimilation

239

(6)

Appendix 1: Senate Roll Call Votes

245

(8)

Appendix 2: Congressional Appropriations

253

(2)

Appendix 3: Indians' Personal Rights and Liberties

255

(2)

Notes

257

(36)

Bibliography

293

(38)

Index

331

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