{"id":33053,"date":"2013-08-21T23:46:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T23:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33053"},"modified":"2022-03-22T19:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:33:41","slug":"mixed-bloods-and-tribal-dissolution-charles-curtis-and-the-quest-for-indian-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33053","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis and the Quest for Indian Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis and the Quest for Indian Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University Press of Kansas<\/a>
\n1989
\n244 pages
\n15 photographs, 3 maps, 6 x 9
\nCloth ISBN 978-0-7006-0395-4<\/p>\n

William E. Unrau<\/strong>, Emeritus Endowment Association Distinguished Research Professor of History
\nWichita State University, Wichita, Kansas<\/em><\/p>\n

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This book shows that without the cooperation of the “mixed-bloods,” or part-Indians, dispossession of Indian lands by the U.S.<\/a> government in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would have been much more difficult to accomplish. The relationship between the M\u00e9tis<\/a> and the loss of Indian lands, never before fully explored, is revealed in Unrau’s study of Charles Curtis<\/a>, a mixed-blood member of the Kansa-Kaws<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curtis is best remembered as Herbert Hoover’s<\/a> vice-president, but he also served in Congress for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n

A successful lawyer and Republican politician, Curtis had spent his early years on a reservation but grew up comfortably and fully integrated into the white world. By virtue of his celebrated status, he became the most important figure in the debate over federal Indian policy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.<\/p>\n

As the Indian expert in Congress, Curtis had significant power in formulating and carrying out the assimilationist program that had been instituted, particularly by the Dawes Act<\/a>, in the 1880s. The strategy was to encourage reservation Indians to reject communal life and reap the rewards of individual enterprise. Central to these developments were questions of ownership, land claims, allotments, tribal inheritance laws, and what constituted the public domain. The underlying issues, however, were Indian identification and assimilation. The government’s actions\u2014affecting schools, the federal courts, Indian Office personnel, allotment and inheritance laws, mineral leases, and the absorption of the Indian Territory<\/a> into the state of Oklahoma<\/a>\u2014all bore the mark of Curtis’s hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This book shows that without the cooperation of the “mixed-bloods,” or part-Indians, dispossession of Indian lands by the U.S. government in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would have been much more difficult to accomplish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,3015],"tags":[15514,15511,15512,15513],"class_list":["post-33053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-native-americans","tag-charles-curtis","tag-university-press-of-kansas","tag-william-e-unrau","tag-william-unrau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63524,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33053\/revisions\/63524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}