Synopses & Reviews
As a Civil Service commissioner, and then successively as governor of New York, vice president of the United States, and finally president, Theodore Roosevelt was advised on American Indian policy by six acquaintances, each of whom sought to influence Roosevelt on Indian matters with varying degrees of success. The six were George Bird Grinnell, Herbert Welsh, Charles F. Lummis, Hamlin Garland, C. Hart Merriam, and Francis Leupp. In this cogent account, William T. Hagan reveals the vagaries of Indian administration by the federal government and the plight of noncitizen tribal peoples living as wards of the United States.