Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter I. The Vanishing Policy
• Chapter II. Persistent Peoples: Native American Social and Cultural Continuity
• Chapter III. The New Indians
• Chapter IV. Symbols of Native American Resiliency: The Indian Art Movement
• Chapter V. Preserving the "Indian": The Reassessment of the Native American Image
• Chapter VI. Progressive Ambiguity: The Reassessment of the Vanishing Policy
• Chapter VII. The "Great Confusion" in Indian Affairs
• Chapter VIII. Epilogue: John Collier and Indian Reform
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

How Native Americans' sense of identity and "peoplehood" helped them resist and ultimately defeat the U.S. government's attempts to assimilate them into white society in the early twentieth century.

About the Author

TOM HOLM, a Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona, is a Cherokee and Muskogee Creek (enrolled Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma).

Reviews

In the end, this is a valuable study because Holm offers a new approach to a period that deserves further analysis. (Journal of the West) The Great Confusion is essential to understanding Indian affairs during and since the Progressive period. (History)