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" Interrupted odyssey : "
Mary Stockwell.
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BL
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840956
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Stockwell, Mary
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Interrupted odyssey : : Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians /\ Mary Stockwell.
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| Publication Statement
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Carbondale :: Southern Illinois University Press,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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The world of Ulysses S. Grant
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ix, 256 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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0809336707
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: 9780809336708
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9780809336715
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-245) and index.
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| Contents
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One man's journey -- Parallel lives -- A better world ahead -- The dawn of a revolt -- Interrupted odyssey -- A sea of change -- War on the far horizon -- The web of corruption -- A forgotten legacy.
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"In this first book devoted to the genesis, failure, and lasting legacy of Ulysses S. Grant's comprehensive American Indian policy, Mary Stockwell shows Grant as an essential bridge between Andrew Jackson's pushing Indians out of the American experience and Franklin D. Roosevelt's welcoming them back in. Situating Grant at the center of Indian policy development after the Civil War, Interrupted Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians reveals the bravery and foresight of the eighteenth president in saying that Indians must be saved and woven into the fabric of American life. In the late 1860s, before becoming president, Grant collaborated with Ely Parker, a Seneca Indian who became his first commissioner of Indian affairs, on a plan to rescue the tribes from certain destruction. Grant hoped to save the Indians from extermination by moving them to reservations, where they would be guarded by the U.S. Army, and welcoming them into the nation as American citizens. By so doing, he would restore the executive branch's traditional authority over Indian policy that had been upended by Jackson. In Interrupted Odyssey, Stockwell rejects the common claim in previous Grant scholarship that he handed the reservations over to Christian missionaries as part of his original policy. In part because Grant's plan ended political patronage, Congress overturned his policy by disallowing Army officers from serving in civil posts, abandoning the treaty system, and making the new Board of Indian Commissioners the supervisors of the Indian service. Only after Congress banned Army officers from the Indian service did Grant place missionaries in charge of the reservations, and only after the board falsely accused Parker of fraud before Congress did Grant lose faith in his original policy. Stockwell explores in depth the ousting of Parker, revealing the deep-seated prejudices that fueled opposition to him, and details Grant's stunned disappointment when the Modoc murdered his peace commissioners and several tribes--the Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Sioux--rose up against his plans for them. Though his dreams were interrupted through the opposition of Congress, reformers, and the tribes themselves, Grant set his country firmly toward making Indians full participants in the national experience. In setting Grant's contributions against the wider story of the American Indians, Stockwell's bold, thoughtful reappraisal reverses the general dismissal of Grant's approach to the Indians as a complete failure and highlights the courage of his policies during a time of great prejudice"--
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"Stockwell shows how Grant was the one key figure between President Andrew Jackson, who pushed the tribes out of the American experience, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who welcomed them back in, who was the brave enough to say the Indians must be saved, not exterminated, and made citizens of the United States"--
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Grant, Ulysses S., (Ulysses Simpson),1822-1885-- Relations with Indians.
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Grant, Ulysses S., (Ulysses Simpson),1822-1885.
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Indians of North America-- Government relations.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Presidents Heads of State.
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HISTORY-- Native American.
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HISTORY-- United States-- 19th Century.
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Indians of North America-- Government relations.
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Relations with Indians.
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323.1197
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E93.S87 2018
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HIS028000BIO011000HIS036040bisacsh
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Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
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Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians
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