The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War
by
C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on...