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Title: Bureau of Indian Affairs
Condition: New
Author: Donald L. Fixico
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0313391793
EAN: 9780313391798
ISBN: 9780313391798
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Date: 01/16/2012
Description: From 19th-century trade agreements and treatments to 21st-century reparations, this volume tells the story of the federal agency that shapes and enforces U.S. policy toward Native Americans.Bureau of Indian Affairs tells the fascinating and important story of an agency that currently oversees U.S. policies affecting over 584 recognized tribes, over 326 federally reserved lands, and over 5 million Native American residents.Written by one of our foremost Native American scholars, this insider's view of the Bureau of Indian Affairs looks at the policies and the personalities that shaped its history, and by extension, nearly two centuries of government-tribal relations. Coverage includes the agency's forerunners and founding, the years of relocation and outright war, the movement to encourage Indian urbanization and assimilation, and the civil rights era surge of Indian activism. A concluding chapter looks at the modern BIA and its role in everything from land allotments and Indian boarding schools to tribal self-government, mineral rights, and the rise of the Indian gaming industry.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 510g
Book Series: Landmarks of the American Mosaic
Release Year: 2012

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