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Book Synopsis
How Native Americans' sense of identity and “peoplehood” helped them resist and ultimately defeat the U.S. government's attempts to assimilate them into white society in the early twentieth century.

Trade Review
In the end, this is a valuable study because Holm offers a new approach to a period that deserves further analysis. * Journal of the West *
The Great Confusion is essential to understanding Indian affairs during and since the Progressive period. * History *

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter I. The Vanishing Policy
  • Chapter II. Persistent Peoples: Native American Social and Cultural Continuity
  • Chapter III. The New Indians
  • Chapter IV. Symbols of Native American Resiliency: The Indian Art Movement
  • Chapter V. Preserving the "Indian": The Reassessment of the Native American Image
  • Chapter VI. Progressive Ambiguity: The Reassessment of the Vanishing Policy
  • Chapter VII. The "Great Confusion" in Indian Affairs
  • Chapter VIII. Epilogue: John Collier and Indian Reform
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/09/2005
      ISBN13: 9780292709621, 978-0292709621
      ISBN10: 0292709625
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How Native Americans' sense of identity and “peoplehood” helped them resist and ultimately defeat the U.S. government's attempts to assimilate them into white society in the early twentieth century.

      Trade Review
      In the end, this is a valuable study because Holm offers a new approach to a period that deserves further analysis. * Journal of the West *
      The Great Confusion is essential to understanding Indian affairs during and since the Progressive period. * History *

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Chapter I. The Vanishing Policy
      • Chapter II. Persistent Peoples: Native American Social and Cultural Continuity
      • Chapter III. The New Indians
      • Chapter IV. Symbols of Native American Resiliency: The Indian Art Movement
      • Chapter V. Preserving the "Indian": The Reassessment of the Native American Image
      • Chapter VI. Progressive Ambiguity: The Reassessment of the Vanishing Policy
      • Chapter VII. The "Great Confusion" in Indian Affairs
      • Chapter VIII. Epilogue: John Collier and Indian Reform
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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