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by Brian W. Dippie

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Not long after the white man stepped ashore in North America he began killing Indians and pushing those that survived farther and farther west. And what of his conscience? Well, he invented a convenient explanation: Indians are a vanishing race, doomed to extinction anyway.

That belief not only persisted, writes historian Brian Dippie, but it also spread throughout American culture. Soon the "vanishing Indian" appeared in science, literature, art, popular culture, and, most importantly, federal policy.

"The assumption that the Indians are a vanishing race has about it the quality of self-fulfilling prophecy," Dippie writes. In this classic study, first published in 1982, he traces the origins of this assumption and documents its insidious effects on U.S. policy toward Indians from the beginning of the nation's history through the Indian New Deal of the 1930s. He describes its role in early attempts at civilization and education, segregation of Indians west of the Mississippi, post-Civil War reform, the Dawes Act and allotment, the gradualism of early twentieth-century policy, the reform movement of the 1920s, John Collier's Indian Reorganization Act, and into the 1970s.

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'The unifying theme is the notion that the Native American is doomed, by radical constitution, by historical necessity, by the realities of Indian-white relations, to disappear from the face of the earth. Dipple is surely right in seeing the importance of this idea from the late eighteenth century on. He makes a convincing case that it was crucial in every intellectual and policy development in the succeeding decades. -New Mexico Historical review

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  • Title The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy
  • Author Brian W. Dippie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd printing
  • Pages 446
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1991-10-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780700605071 / 070060507X
  • Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.11 x 0.91 in (22.91 x 15.52 x 2.31 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Plains
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Public opinion - United States - History, Indians of North America - Government
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91018772
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.049
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