The uncertainty and dread experienced by the same Senate committee were heightened by the experience of the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin, who were the second significant tribe to be exposed to the congressional dismantling process. At the start of the …

The years immediately following World War II saw the development of a fundamental dispute over Indian policy. Initially, the discussion was a side issue inside a larger conversation about government expenditures and the expansion of “big government.” It started out …

The University of Chicago studied the problems of identifying and enumerating the Indian population, with results quite at variance with official reports. At a time when government programs in the United States and Canada still predicated Indian assimilation, the Chicago …

The only people who didn’t seem to be eager to embrace oblivion as a fitting epilogue to their part in the New World story were the Indians. As civilization spread westward, the Indians were engulfed in waves of deadly diseases …