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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Dramatistic Analysis and the Puget Sound War, 1854- 1858 -- Chapter 2 Rhetorical Genres and the Sioux Uprising, 1862 -- Chapter 3 Political Spectacles and the Sand Creek Massacre, 1864- 1865 -- Chapter 4 Colonial Discourse and the Navajo Internment, 1846- 1868 -- Chapter 5 Identity Transformation and the Journeys of Fanny Kelly and Chief Red Cloud, 1864- 1870 -- Chapter 6 Rituals of Redress and Zuni Witch Cases, 1880- 1900 -- Chapter 7 Resistance, Advocacy, and the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho, 1868- 1961 -- Chapter 8 Legislative Movements and the Return of Blue Lake, 1922- 1970 -- Chapter 9 Ethnography and Puget Sound Indian Fishing Rights, 1973- 1974 -- Chapter 10 Lamentation and Agitation at Wounded Knee, 1890 and 1973 -- Chapter 11 Indian Alcohol Abuse, Narrative Reasoning, and the Gordon House Case, 1992- 2000 -- Bibliography -- Index.

When in 1893 the Quechan Indians of Fort Yuma, California, gave up tracts of fertile farmland in the Colorado River basin in return for Federal aid, they hardly could have anticipated the ensuing deterioration of their economic, political, and cultural self-determination. Their circumstances devolved as has often been the case with Federal Indian policy. This intriguing book, original published in 1981, considers the Quechans as a case history of the frequent discrepancy between benevolently phrased national intention and exploitative local action. The story of their changing life is traced through the anti-poverty programs of the 1960s and '70s—showing how the implementation of these programs was affected by features of community life that had evolved over preceding decades—and culminates in the Quechans' forging a self-sustaining though fragile economy despite their status as Federal wards. This book is more than a product of archival research. Author Robert Bee attended Quechan public gatherings, canvassed the community, and conducted intensive interviews over a thirteen-year period to attain an intimate understanding of this people's perseverance in the face of age-old frustration. In presenting their story, Bee focuses on the behavior and actions of individuals thrust into key decision-making roles to provide more than just abstract analysis. What emerges is not only a unique ethnohistorical approach to economic development, but a model history of a modern tribe.

Statement by G. W. Hill asking for appointment of Ti-Nah, a Caddo, to be put in charge of his people.

Transcription of an article regarding a meeting about territorial government for Native Americans and citizenship. The article also discusses each of the commissioners present at the meeting, speeches, and various events.