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The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy
Brian W. Dippie
"The assumption that the Indians are a vanishing race has about it the quality of self-fulfilling prophecy," Brian Dippie writes. In this classic study, first published in 1982, he traces the origins of this assumption and documents its insidious effects on U.S. policy toward Indians from the beginning of the nation's history through the Indian New Deal of the 1930s. He describes its role in early attempts at civilization and education, segregation of Indians west of the Mississippi, post-Civil War reform, the Dawes Act and allotment, the gradualism of early twentieth-century policy, the reform movement of the 1920s, John Collier's Indian Reorganization Act, and into the 1970s.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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A Note on Numbers
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PART I: And Then There Were None: A “Bold, but Wasting Race” of Men
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Chapter One. Their Power Has Been Broken: The Indian After the War of 1812
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Chapter Two. The Anatomy of the Vanishing American
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Chapter Three. The Pathology of the Vanishing American
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PART II: Isolation: Indian Policy Before the Civil War
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Chapter Four. Making Good Neighbors: Segregation in Indian Policy
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Chapter Five. A Magnanimous Act of Interpositions: Indian Removal
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PART III: The None-Vanishing American
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Chapter Six. Red, White, and Black
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Chapter Seven. Can He Be Saved?: Environmentalism and Evolutionism
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Chapter Eight. He Can Be Saved: Agriculture and Education
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Chapter Nine. The Convenient Extinction Doctrine: A Crusade Against the Vanishing American
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PART IV: Assimilation: Indian Policy Through World War I
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Chapter Ten. In Search of the One True Answer: Indian Policy After the Civil War
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Chapter Eleven. A New Order of Things: The General Allotment Act
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Chapter Twelve. A Matter of Administration: Indian’s Policy’s Confident Years
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PART V: And Then There Were None: A Superseded Race
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Chapter Thirteen. We Have Come to the Day of Audit: The Vanishing American Returns
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Chapter Fourteen. Now or Never Is the Time: Cultural Exinction and the Conservationist Impulse
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Chapter Fifteen. There Will Be No “Later” for the Indian: Amalgamation and the Vanishing Race
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PART VI: Choice: Indian Policy Through World War II
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Chapter Sixteen. To Each Age Its Own Indian: The 1920s and the Changing Indian
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Published: 1991
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
- 978-0-7006-0507-1 (paper)