Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Lambert, Valerie, author.

Title Native agency : Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs / Valerie Lambert
Published Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
©2022

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xxii, 350 pages)
Series Indigenous Americas
Indigenous Americas.
Contents Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Time Line -- Introduction. The Native Agency -- Chapter 1. From the Department of War to the Second Indian Take-over -- Chapter 2. A New Paradigm for Federal-Indian Relations -- Chapter 3. Powered by Conviction, Vision, and Grit -- Chapter 4. Fighting for Justice for Indian People -- Chapter 5. Implementing an Indian Agenda -- Chapter 6. Navigating Indian Country from All Directions -- Conclusion. Leveraging Federal Power and Advancing Indian Interests -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it sketches the visions of the future that Indians at the BIA and in Indian Country have been crafting for themselves"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
About the Author
Subject United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs -- Officials and employees
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs -- History
SUBJECT United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs fast
Subject Indians of North America -- Government relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Employees
Indians of North America -- Government relations
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781452968230
1452968233