The Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians.
Covering the two centuries from the Revolutionary War to 1980, the book traces the development of American Indian policy and the growth of the bureaucracy created to implement that policy.. Government and the Indians.
It is a comprehensive history of the relations between the U.
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This abridged one-volume edition follows the structure of the two-volume edition, eliminating only the footnotes and some of the detail.
The Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians