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Chief Red Fox Is Dead: A History of Native Americans Since 1945

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This is really everything you need to know about modern NA history in one brief book. Very readable, brief but with enough detail to make the story a good one. Hits all of the highlights such as Allotment, Indian New Deal, Termination and how Indian affairs have changed since Nixon. It is not a romantic look at the plight of the Indians--its a realistic, accurate assessment of Indian problems since WWII, and what Indians are doing today to try to help themselves while still keeping sovereignty, dignity and thier past.
Its kind of a mini-text book.

I happened upon this book by pure coincidence but have since come to rely upon it as an essential reference source on the history of federal and state policy towards dealing with tribes, tribal governments and tribal members. A really well written and interesting read, not too academic or technical, and does justice to the experience of Native Americans while maintaining a remarkable objectivity uncommon to most histories on this topic. Very useful to put contemporary Indian policy issues into a larger historical context, in my case, in representing state government interactions with Arizona tribes. A good read for interested non-government amateurs as well.