The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy

by Brian W. Dippie

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Not long after the white man stepped ashore in North America he began killing Indians and pushing those that survived farther and farther west. And what of his conscience? Well, he invented a convenient explanation: Indians are a vanishing race, doomed to extinction anyway.

That belief not only persisted, writes historian Brian Dippie, but it also spread throughout American culture. Soon the "vanishing Indian" appeared in science, literature,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:070060507X

ISBN13:9780700605071

Release Date:October 1991

Publisher:University Press of Kansas

Length:446 Pages

Weight:1.44 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Americas History Native American Native American Studies Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Sociology Specific Demographics World

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