Indian Agents

Author : John L. Steckley
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 1453919155
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Agents written by John L. Steckley and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadians are beginning to learn about the negative effects of residential schools on Aboriginal people in Canada. More hidden in the written record, but bearing a similar powerfully destructive role, are Indian Agents, who were with very few exceptions White men who ‘ruled the reserves’ in Canada from the 1870s to the 1960s. This book is the first to present a discussion of Indian Agents in general. It provides an introductory look at the control Indian Agents exercised over Aboriginal communities throughout the period in question. The primary intent is to spark discussion in Indigenous studies courses. This book is built upon a discussion of the lives and impact of five Indian Agents: Hayter Reed, William Morris Graham, John McIver, William Halliday, and Fred Hall. However, the practices and views of 39 other Indian Agents are interwoven throughout the text. Although there was a readily detectable sameness in the way that Indian Agent power was imposed on Aboriginal communities based on the institutional racism of the Indian Agent System, one of the points to be made is that not all Indian Agents were the same. Some were more oppressive than others. Also frequently pointed out is the fact that Aboriginal peoples were not merely helpless victims to Indian Agent control, but resisted that control, sometimes successfully. The book concludes with a chapter comparing the Indian Agent System in Canada, with similar systems in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

Author : George Harwood Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806129044
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indians and Indian Agents written by George Harwood Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing the Indians of California as full participants in the events shaping their destiny in the wake of the 1849 gold rush, Phillips (history, U. of Colorado-Boulder) narrates how they negotiated large portions in the interior of the state as reservations in turn for letting the miners dig unim

Author : Frank Kelderman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438476191
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authorized Agents written by Frank Kelderman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Native American writing and oratory extended a long tradition of diplomacy between indigenous people and settler states. As the crisis of forced removal profoundly reshaped Indian country between 1820 and 1860, tribal leaders and intellectuals worked with coauthors, interpreters, and amanuenses to address the impact of American imperialism on Indian nations. These collaborative publication projects operated through institutions of Indian diplomacy, but also intervened in them to contest colonial ideas about empire, the frontier, and nationalism. In this book, Frank Kelderman traces this literary history in the heart of the continent, from the Great Lakes to the Upper Missouri River Valley. Because their writings often were edited and published by colonial institutions, many early Native American writers have long been misread, discredited, or simply ignored. Authorized Agents demonstrates why their works should not be dismissed as simply extending the discourses of government agencies or religious organizations. Through analyses of a range of texts, including oratory, newspapers, autobiographies, petitions, and government papers, Kelderman offers an interdisciplinary method for examining how Native authors claimed a place in public discourse, and how the conventions of Indian diplomacy shaped their texts.

Author : John L. Steckley
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 1433136635
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Agents written by John L. Steckley and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introductory look at the control Indian Agents, who were primarily White men, exercised over Aboriginal communities in Canada from the 1870s to the 1960s. The book concludes with a comparison of the Indian Agent System in Canada, with similar systems in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

Author : Ward Churchill
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896086463
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agents of Repression written by Ward Churchill and published by South End Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program). Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement. The authors' new introduction examines the legacies of the Panthers and AIM, and shows how the FBI still presents a threat to those committed to fundamental social change. Ward Churchill is author of From a Native Son. Jim Vander Wall is co-author of The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States, with Ward Churchill.

Author : Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806161361
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reservations, Removal, and Reform written by Valerie Sherer Mathes and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inseparable from the history of the Indians of Southern California is the role of the Indian agent—a government functionary whose chief duty was, according to the Office of Indian Affairs, to “induce his Indian to labor in civilized pursuits.” Offering a portrait of the Mission Indian agents of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Reservations, Removal, and Reform reveals how individual agents interpreted this charge, and how their actions and attitudes affected the lives of the Mission Indians of Southern California. This book tells the story of the government agents, both special and regular, who served the Mission Indians from 1850 to 1903, with an emphasis on seven regular agents who served from 1878 to 1903. Relying on the agents’ reports and correspondence as well as newspaper articles and court records, authors Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi create a vivid picture of how each man—each a political appointee tasked with implementing ever-changing policies crafted in far-off Washington, D.C.—engaged with the issues and events confronting the Mission Indians, from land tenure and water rights to education, law enforcement, and health care. Providing a balanced, comprehensive view of the world these agents temporarily inhabited and the people they were called to serve, Reservations, Removal, and Reform deepens and broadens our understanding of the lives and history of the Indians of Southern California.

Author : Flora Warren Seymour
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Agents of the Old Frontier written by Flora Warren Seymour and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1941 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803235887
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Agent written by Dan O'Brien and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan O'Brien's novel The Contract Surgeon introduced readers to Valentine McGillycuddy, a friend of the great war chief Crazy Horse. Through McGillycuddy's eyes, the novel recounted the friendship that so deeply impacted history. It also chronicled the great Sioux Wars, one of the most violent periods in this nation's history. After Crazy Horse's death, McGillycuddy went on to become the youngest agent in history for the Red Cloud Agency, renamed the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, of the Oglala Lakota band of the Sioux. Although Red Cloud and McGillycuddy have diametrically opposing views, they have more in common than either suspects. They both love the land, and they both love the past. The politics and the enormous tensions of the early days on the reservation come to life here as McGillycuddy (known as "the most investigated man" in the government) urges the Sioux to adopt a life of farming. Because he had lived on the vast plains with them, no white man knew better what the Sioux had given up -- or understood more fully the impossibility of returning to the old life.

Author : Cadwallader Colden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada which are Dependent on the Province of New York, and are a Barrier Between the English and French in that Part of the World written by Cadwallader Colden and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1344 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Compiled Statutes, Annotated, 1916 written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: