The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Unabridged Volumes 1 and 2 Combined)

The Colonial Experience (images Of The Indians -- Christianization -- Invasion Of The Indian Lands -- Trade Relations -- British Imperial Policy) -- Formative Years, Peace After The Revolution (the Policy Of The Continental Congress -- Early Treaties And Ordinances -- The Constitution And Indian Policy -- Indian Rights To The Land) -- War And Defense (subjugating The Indians Northwest Of The Ohio River -- Unrest And Retaliation In The South -- Probing The New West -- The War Of 1812 -- American Dominion -- North, West, And South) -- Trade And Intercourse Laws (legislation To Control The Frontier Whites -- Regulating The Trade In Furs -- The Crusade Against Ardent Spirits Crimes In The Indian Country -- Removal Of Intruders On Indian Lands) -- Government Trading Houses : Factories (beginnings Of The Factory System -- Jeffersonian Expansion -- Attack And Support -- The End Of The Factories) -- Civilization And Education (civilization -- Agriculture And Domestic Industry -- Christinization -- The Role Of Thomas L. Mckenney -- The Civilization Fund And Indian Schools -- Jedidiah Morse's Report) -- The Indian Department (superintendents And Agents -- Headquarters Organization -- Assistance From Military Commanders -- Presents And Annuities -- Peace Medals And Delegations) -- Indian Removal. The Policy Of Indian Removal (formulation Of The Policy -- Andrew Jackson And The Removal -- Motivation For Removal -- Controversy And Debate -- The Cherokee Cases) The Emigration Of The Southern Tribes (choctaws -- Creeks -- Chickasaws -- Investigating The Lands In The West -- Seminoles And The Florida War -- Cherokees And The Trail Of Tears) -- Removel Of The Northern Indians (clearing The Old Northwest -- Potawatomi Dispersal -- Sacs And Foxes And The Black Hawk War -- Other Tribes -- New York Indians -- The Role Of The Traders) -- The Emigrant Indians In The West (transplanted Indian Nations -- Military Defense Of The Frontier -- Benevolence And Reform) -- New Structures And Programs (development Of The Indian Department -- Proposals For An Indian State -- Annuities And Liquor Regulation) -- American Expansion And The Reservation System. The Indian Office : Men And Policies (department Of The Interior -- Commissioners Of The 1850s An Expanded Indian Department -- Perennial Problems : Annuities And Liquor -- The Challenge Of Scientific Racism) -- A Pathway To The Pacific (colonization Of The Western Tribes -- Kansas-nebraska And The Indians -- Military Action On The Plains) -- Texas, New Mexico, And Utah (the Indian Situation In Texas -- Reservations For Texas Indians -- Indian Affairs In New Mexico -- Indians, Mormons, And Gentiles) -- California, Oregon, And Washington (a Reservation Policy For California -- Indian Affiars In The Oregon Country -- The Indians Of Washington Territory) -- The Civil War Years. The Southern Indians And The Confederate States (tribes In The Indian Territory -- Indian Treaties With The Confederacy -- War In The Indian Territory -- Peace Council At Fort Smith -- Reconstruction Treaties) Indian Conflicts : A Series Of Other Wars (sioux Uprising In Minnesota -- War In The Southwest -- Bosque Redondo -- The Great Experiment -- Sand Creek) -- The Indian System And Its Critics (commissioner Dole And The Reservation System -- Protests Against The Indian System -- Proposals For Military Control) -- The Peace Policy. Stirrings Of Reform (doolittle Committee -- Indian Peace Commission -- Civilization For The Indians -- Reform Impulses) -- Structures Of The Peace Policy (the Board Of Indian Commissioners -- Churches And The Agencies -- Failure Of The Structures -- The End Of Treaty Making) -- Military Challenge (indian Wars -- The Army And The Indian -- The Transfer Issue -- The End Of The Military Phase) -- Reservation Policy (consolidation Of Reservations -- Indian Resistance To Removal -- Revision Of Reservation Policy) -- The Indian Service : Policies And Administration) An Array Of Commissioners -- Fraud And The Indian Rings -- Inspectors And Special Agents -- Policies And Programs -- Law And Order) -- The New Christian Reformers (reform Organizations -- Christian Humanitarianism -- Americanization -- Other Voices) -- The Reservations And Reform (dismantling The Great Sioux Reserve -- Mission Indians Of California -- Promotion Of Civilization -- Continuing Liquor Problems -- Opposition To Reservations) -- Severalty, Law And Citizenship (the Drive For A General Allotment Law -- The Dawes Act -- Leasing Of Allotments -- Renaming The Indians -- Law For The Indians -- Citizenship) -- Education For Patriotic Citizenship (promotion Of Indian Schools -- Carlisle Indian Industrial School Thomas Jefferson Morgan And Indian Schools -- Conflict Over The Contract Schools -- Competition From The Wild West Shows) -- The Indian Service : Bureaucratization And Reform (growth Of The Indian Service -- Civil Service Reform -- The Lesson Of Wounded Knee -- Replacing The Political Agents) -- Territorial Expansion (the Drive For Territorial Organization -- Invasion Of The Indian Territory -- Defeat Of The Five Civilized Tribes -- Oklahoma Statehood) -- The Nation's Wards. The Indian Office : The Indians' Guardian (progressives In The Indian Office -- The Decline Of The Christian Reformers -- Administrative Efficiency -- Liquor And Peyote) -- The 1920s : The Guardian On Trial (continuity And Development -- The Bureau Under Siege -- Investigations And Reports) -- Education For Self-support (the Indian School System Public Schools For Indians -- Courses Of Study -- Success And Failure) -- Concern For Indian Health (the Condition Of Indian Health -- Initial Campaigns Against Disease -- A Continuing But Insufficient Fight -- The Critics) -- The Indians' Land (continuing Allotment -- Modifications Of The Dawes Act -- Competency And Fee Patents -- Land Policy In The 1920s -- Forestry And Irrigation -- Appraisal Of The Allotment Policy) -- Indians Of Oklahoma And New York (final Dissolution Of The Five Civilized Tribes -- Removal Of Restrictions -- The Scandal Of The Probate Courts -- Indians Schools In Oklahoma -- The Indians Of New York State) -- The Indian New Deal. Transition : The Hoover Years (new Officials -- Progress And Reform -- Failures -- Attacks And Rebuttals) The New Reform (john Collier, Commissioner -- Conservation And Relief -- New Deal Measures -- John Collier's Reform Proposal -- The Wheeler-howard (indian Reorganization) Act -- Rounding Out The New Deal (extending The Indian Reorganization Act -- Indian Arts And Crafts -- Continuing Educational Reform -- Health Programs -- Economic Development -- The Bureaucracy) -- The End Of The Indian New Deal (john Collier's Travail -- Congressional Attacks -- The Indians And World War Ii -- The Legacy Of The Indian New Deal) -- Termination. The Postwar Years (the Indian Claims Commission -- Postwar Readjustment -- The Approach Of Termination -- Bureau Reorganization) -- Termination In Action (legislative Action -- Termination Laws -- Reversal Of Policy) -- Programs For Indians (education For Cultural Change -- Transfer Of Indian Health Services Economic Development -- Relocation) -- Indian Self-determination. Turnabout In The 1960s (the New Trail -- The War Against Poverty -- New Emphasis On Indian Self-determination -- The State Of Indian Education -- The Civil Rights Act Of 1968) -- Signs Of The New Day (nixon's Indian Policy -- The New Indians And Red Power -- Turnover And Turmoil In The Bia -- Religious Freedom -- Alaska Native Claims -- Menominee Restoration) -- Advances In Indian Rights And Responsibilities (indian Education -- Indian Health -- Indian Child Welfare Act -- Indian Self-determination Act -- American Indian Policy Review Commission) -- Legal And Judicial Maneuvering (land Claims And Conflicts -- Water Rights -- Fishing And Hunting Rights -- Inherent Sovereignty And Tribal Jurisdiction) The American Indians In 1980 (urban Indians And Nonrecognized Tribes -- Federal Programs For Indians -- Building An Economic Base -- Trust Responsibility : The Great Father Redivivus -- America's Unfinished Business) -- Appendixes (appendix A (presidents, Secretaries Of War And Interior, And Commissioners Of Indian Affairs) -- Appendix B (indian Population) -- Appendix C (indian Tribal Entities That Have A Government-to-government Relationship With The United States) -- Appendix D (nomenclature Of The Bureau Of Indian Affairs). Francis Paul Prucha. Unabridged Re-issue Of C1984 Ed. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [1231]-1257) And Index. Frontmatter (page N/A) List of Maps (page xix) List of Illustrations (page xxi) List of Tables (page xxv) Preface (page xxvii) Acknowledgments (page xxxi) Abbreviations (page 3) PROLOGUE: THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE (page 5) PART ONE: FORMATIVE YEARS (page 29) 1. Peace after the Revolution (page 35) 2. War and Defense (page 61) 3. Trade and Intercourse Laws (page 89) 4. Government Trading Houses (Factories) (page 115) 5. Civilization and Education (page 135) 6. The Indian Department (page 159) PART TWO: INDIAN REMOVAL (page 179) 7. The Policy of Indian Removal (page 183) 8. The Emigration of the Southern Tribes (page 214) 9. Removal of the Northern Indians (page 243) 10. The Emigrant Indians in the West (page 270) 11. New Structures and Programs (page 293) PART THREE: AMERICAN EXPANSION AND THE RESERVATION SYSTEM (page 315) 12. The Indian Office: Men and Policies (page 319) 13. A Pathway to the Pacific (page 339) 14. Texas, New Mexico, and Utah (page 354) 15. California, Oregon, and Washington (page 381) PART FOUR: THE CIVIL WAR YEARS (page 411) 16. The Southern Indians and the Confederate States (page 415) 17. Indian Conflicts: A Series of Other Wars (page 437) 18. The Indian System and Its Critics (page 462) PART FIVE: THE PEACE POLICY (page 479) 19. Stirrings of Reform (page 485) 20. Structures of the Peace Policy (page 501) 21. Military Challenge (page 534) 22. Reservation Policy (page 562) 23. The Indian Service: Policies and Administration (page 582) Illustrations and Map Credits, Volume I (page 607) PART SIX: AMERICANIZING THE AMERICAN INDIANS (page 609) 24. The New Christian Reformers (page 611) 25. The Reservations and Reform (page 631) 26. Severalty, Law, and Citizenship (page 659) 27. Education for Patriotic Citizenship (page 687) 28. The Indian Service: Bureaucratization and Reform (page 716) 29. Liquidating the Indian Territory (page 737) PART SEVEN: THE NATION'S WARDS (page 759) 30. The Indian Office: The Indians' Guardian (page 763) 31. The 1920s: The Guardian on Trial (page 790) 32. Education for Self-Support (page 814) 33. Concern for Indian Health (page 841) 34. The Indians' Land (page 864) 35. Indians of Oklahoma and New York (page 897) Part Eight: The Indian New Deal (page 917) 36. Transition: The Hoover Years (page 921) 37. The New Reform (page 940) 38 Rounding Out the New Deal (page 969) 993 The End of the Indian New Deal (page 993) Part Nine: Termination (page 1013) 40 The Postwar Years (page 1017) 41 Termination in Action (page 1041) 42 Programs for Indians (page 1060) Part Ten: Indian Self-Determination (page 1085) 43 Turnabout in the 1960s (page 1087) 44 Signs of the New Day (page 1111) 45 Advances in Indian Rights and Responsibilities (page 1139) 46 Legal and Judicial Maneuvering (page 1171) 47 The American Indians in 1980 (page 1191) Appendixes (page 1209) Bibliographical Essay (page 1231) Illustration and Map Credits, Volume II (page 1259) Index (page 1261) The Great Father was widely praised and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. It is a comprehensive history of the relations between the U.S. government and the Indians. Covering the two centuries from the Revolutionary War to 1980, the book traces the development of American Indian policy and the growth of the bureaucracy created to implement that policy