{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-indians-of-the-united-states-106-9780806118888","title":"A History of the Indians of the United States, 106","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, \"for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow.\" Yet even today most intelligent non-Indian Americans have little knowledge of Indian history and affairs those lessons have not taken root.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an in-depth historical survey of the Indians of the United States, including the Eskimos and Aleuts of Alaska, which isolates and analyzes the problems which have beset these people since their first contacts with Europeans. Only in the light of this knowledge, the author points out, can an intelligent Indian policy be formulated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the book are described the first meetings of Indians with explorers, the dispossession of the Indians by colonial expansion, their involvement in imperial rivalries, their beginning relations with the new American republic, and the ensuing century of war and encroachment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most recent aspects of government Indian policy are also detailed the good and bad administrative practices and measures to which the Indians have been subjected and their present situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss Debo's style is objective, and throughout the book the distinct social environment of the Indians is emphasized-an environment that is foreign to the experience of most white men. Through ignorance of that culture and life style the results of non-Indian policy toward Indians have been centuries of blundering and tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn response to Indian history, an enlightened policy must be formulated: protection of Indian land, vocational and educational training, \u003cem\u003evoluntary \u003c\/em\u003erelocation, encouragement of tribal organization, recognition of Indians' social groupings, and reliance on Indians' abilities to direct their own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result of this new policy would be a chance for Indians to live now, whether on their own land or as adjusted members of white society. Indian history is usually highly specialized and is never recorded in books of general history. This book unifies the many specialized volumes which have been written about their history and culture. It has been written not only for persons who work with Indians or for students of Indian culture, but for all Americans of good will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDebo, Angie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAngie Debo\u003c\/strong\u003e was reared in a pioneer community, at Marshall, Oklahoma, where it has been her privilege to know from childhood the folkways of the Indians and the traditions of the western settlers. A member of her community high school's first graduating class, she later attended the University of Oklahoma, where she was a Phi Beta Kappa, and took her B.A. and later her Ph.D. degree; she received her master's degree from the University of Chicago. Her education was combined with intervals of teaching in country schools, starting at the age of sixteen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMiss Debo's distinguished reputation as a regional scholar has been enhanced by her book, \u003cem\u003eThe Rise and. Fall of the Choctaw Republic, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich won the John H. Dunning prize of the American Historical Society for the best book submitted in the field of United States history in 1934, and for her later, book, \u003cem\u003eAnd Still the Waters Run. \u003c\/em\u003eShe has been a teacher in schools and colleges both in Oklahoma and Texas and was curator of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas. More recently she has been state director of the Federal Writers' Project in Oklahoma, in which capacity she edited \u003cem\u003eOklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State \u003c\/em\u003efor the American Guide Series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413110493458,"sku":"9780806118888","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b6a698f0-5aca-4335-b54b-b9b173138249.jpg?v=1729347444","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-history-of-the-indians-of-the-united-states-106-9780806118888","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}