Synopses & Reviews
This expanded edition adds 38 new documents, dated 1972 to 1988 and covering a period of great activity and rapid movement toward Indian self-determination. Among the topics dealt with are fishing rights, economic development, the American Indian Policy Review Commission, education, health and welfare, self-determination, legal jurisdiction, water rights, and archaeological resources, as well as major claims cases such as those of the Sioux and the Maine Indian groups.
About the Author
Francis Paul Prucha, S.J., is an emeritus professor of history at Marquette University. His many publications include The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (1984), winner of the Ray Allen Billington Award, and Handbook for Research in American History both published by the University of Nebraska Press.