The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy [Paperback]

Brian W. Dippie (Author)

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Paperback: 426 pages
Publisher: University Press of Kansas; New edition edition (October 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 070060507X
ISBN-13: 978-0700605071
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #234,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A model study in the history of American ideas. A distinguished contribution to American History." -- Pacific Historian

"A remarkably fine book. Enlightening and delightful." -- American Historical Review

"Deserves a place on the shelves of anyone concerned with the status of Indians today." -- Books of the Southwest

"Should be on the reading list of every course on the history of the American Indian." -- Pacific Historical Review

"The best study of American cultural attitudes regarding the Indian produced to date. Written in a clear and enjoyable style." -- Canadian Review of American Studies

"Totally absorbing." -- American Indian Quarterly

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Not long after the white man stepped ashore in North America he began killing Indians and pushing those that survived farther and farther west. And what of his conscience? Well, he invented a convenient explanation: Indians are a vanishing race, doomed to extinction anyway.

That belief not only persisted, writes historian Brian Dippie, but it also spread throughout American culture. Soon the "vanishing Indian" appeared in science, literature, art, popular culture, and, most importantly, federal policy.

"The assumption that the Indians are a vanishing race has about it the quality of self-fulfilling prophecy," 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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