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Pub. Date
[2002], c1998
Description
Discusses the cultural, economic, psychological, and social effects of relocation on the Seneca Nation of Indians following the building of the Kinzua Dam project on the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania, that flooded one-third of the Allegany Reservation lands and forced nearly six hundred of the people to abandon their homes.
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
"The film powerfully highlights efforts to redress more than a century's worth of legal and political moves undermining Indian land ownership and sovereignty, going back to the 1887 General Allotment Act; the national fight to recover lost lands is being led by the Twin Cities-based Indian Tenure Land Foundation."--Publisher's webpage.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The Jacksonian period has long been recognized as a watershed era in American Indian policy. Ronald N. Satz's American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era uses the perspectives of both ethnohistory and public administration to analyze the formulation, execution, and results of government policies of the 1830s and 1840s. In doing so, he examines the differences between the rhetoric and the realities of those policies and furnishes a much-needed corrective...
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