Description
Genetin-Pilawa focuses on reformers and activists, including Tonawanda Seneca Ely S. Parker and Council Fire editor Thomas A. Bland, whose contributions to Indian policy debates have heretofore been underappreciated. He reveals how these men and their allies opposed such policies as forced land allotment, the elimination of traditional cultural practices, mandatory boarding school education for Indian youth, and compulsory participation in the market economy. Although the mainstream supporters of assimilation successfully repressed these efforts, the ideas and policy frameworks they espoused established a tradition of dissent against disruptive colonial governance.
About the Author
C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa is assistant professor of history at Illinois College.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469617510
Author C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press