A History of the Indians of the United States

First published in 1970, this survey follows Native nations of the present United States, including the Inuit and Aleut of Alaska, from first meetings with Europeans through colonial dispossession, imperial wars, and the policies of the American republic. Debo traces removal, reservation confinement, allotment, and the later federal bureaucracy, with particular attention to the peoples concentrated in Oklahoma. She treats each nation's social order as distinct and argues that government action repeatedly failed because it ignored that fact. Closing chapters examine twentieth-century administration, remaining land, and the case for tribal control of local affairs.

Bound in dark green buckram with a contrasting front panel printed with a daguerreotype photograph by Edward S. Curtis. Dark brown endpapers. Dark green slipcase.