[Review of] Wilbur S. Nye. Plains Indian Raiders

Published in 1968, reprinted in 1974, and a third printing in 1984, this volume contains a collection of 112 superb photographs, mostly by William S. Soule. Born in Maine in 1836, he was wounded in the Civil War and in 1865 entered the photography business, but sold this to become chief clerk in the sutler store operated by John Tappan at Fort Dodge (Kansas), where he resumed his photographic activity during off-duty hours. Soule probably made most of his photographs of Cheyennes and Araphoes [Arapahos] at Fort Dodge, some others at Camp Supply and Fort Sill (Indian Territory). All of the pictures are probably from the period 1867-1875, and they, perhaps more than the text, explain the need for the third printing of this volume

[Review of] Anthony D. Brown, et al. New Directions in Federal Indian Policy

This volume consists of an introduction and ten articles which were originally presented as papers at the second annual conference (sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center, UCLA) held to examine contemporary issues of importance to Indian Americans. The conference of 1978 focused on a review of the recently completed work of the American Indian Policy Review Commission (AIPRC), which Congress had created in 1975 in order to study past Indian/federal government relationships and to recommend new national policies and programs

[Review of] Jack D. Forbes. Native Americans and Nixon: Presidential Politics and Minority Self-Determination 1969-1972

In Native Americans and Nixon, Jack D. Forbes, author of several monographs on the Indian in America\u27s past, has undertaken an important subject, one also difficult because essential sources are lacking. Forbes therefore employs a number of hedges such as we can only guess (116) in his conjecture about the motives and actions of the Nixon administration relative to Indian Americans. In a foreword taking twenty-three of the 124 pages of text, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz of California State University, Hayward, sets the theme of neocolonialism. Explaining the background of post-World War II techniques of colonial control, she states that Hundreds of thousands of democratic groups were executed or imprisoned by United States forces directly or through military training and aid to puppet regimes (7). Readers receptive to this statement will have little difficulty in speculating with these writers that Nixon\u27s words were hollow when he stated in 1970 that We must assure the Indian that he can assume control of his own life without being separated involuntarily from the tribal group (5)

[Review of] H. Craig Miner and William E. Unrau. The End of Indian Kansas: A Study of Cultural Revolution 1854-1871

The forced removal of thousands of Indians from eastern Kansas between 1854 and 1871 adversely affected even more Native Americans and occupied even more government time than did the struggle between the army and the tribesmen of the western plains, who forcibly resisted subjugation

[Review of] Jerry Kammer. The Second Long Walk: The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

The job of the social sciences and sometimes investigative reporters is to deal with on-going problems that cannot be solved, but must be coped with; Jerry Kammer has found an example of this in the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute. His first contact with the subject was during summer, 1974, as a newspaper reporter. His book includes interviews with people involved, thoughtful analysis of their statements, chronology of events, two maps, 27 photographs, an adequate index, and chapter endnotes

[Review of] Graham B. Taylor, The New Deal and American Indian Tribalism: the Administration of the Indian Reorganization Act. 1934-45

John Collier became Indian Commissioner during the New Deal Administration of Franklin Roosevelt. For more than a decade Collier had been a severe critic of the Indian Bureau; his appointment marked a significant break with past governmental attitudes which had been implemented under the General Allotment Act of 1887, and had resulted in immense land transfers to non-Indian ownership