ISBN: 9781496237750 - bribed with our own money: federal abuse of american indian funds in the termination era (new visions in native american and indigenous studies) (7 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorDavid R. M. Beck is an award-winning historian and a professor in the University of Illinois Department of History. He is the author of The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians si.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Bribed with Our Own Money David R. M. Beck analyzes the successes and failures of Indigenous nations' opposition to federal policy in the 1950s and 1960s. Focusing on case studies from six Native nations, Beck recounts how the U.S. government coerced American Indian nations to accept termination of their political relationship with the United States by threatening to withhold money that belonged to the tribes. Termination was the continuation-and, federal officials hoped, the culmination-of more than a century of policy initiatives intended to end the political relationship between Indian tribal nations and the federal government. Termination was also intended to assimilate American Indian individuals into the country's social and economic culture and to remove the remainder of reservation lands from federal trust. American Indians hoped to gain greater opportunities of self-governance and self-determination, but they wanted to do so under the protection of the federal trust relationship.Bribed with Our Own Money analyzes both successful and unsuccessful efforts of Native nations to oppose this policy within the larger context of long-standing federal abuse of tribal funds. It is the first book to view federal termination efforts grounded in bribery for what they were: a form of coercion.…