History of the Indians of the United States. An in-depth historical survey of the Indians of America, including the Eskimo and Aleuts. It isolates and analyzes the problems which have beset these peoples since the first contact with Europeans. The book describes the first meetings of Indians with explorers, the dispossesion of 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. More recent aspects of government policy, good & bad , to the present are discussed.
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History of Indians in North America, Ethnology, Native American, Indian Policy
