Agnes Martin: Richard Tuttle - Hardcover

Auping, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0929865170 ISBN 13: 9780929865171

Publisher: Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, 1998

Synopsis

This book recounts the reservation period of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes in western Oklahoma and the following fifteen years. It is an investigation-and an indictment-of the assimilation and reservation policies thrust upon them in the latter half of the nineteenth century, policies that succeeded only in doing enormous damage to sturdy, vital people.Confined to a reservation in the Indian Territory in 1875, the Southern Cheyennes and their neighbors, the Arapahoes, traditionally hunting and mobile societies, were forced into the federal government's image of "educated, Christian farmer-citizens." Lacking the support of adequate appropriations or protective legislation, the Cheyennes' lives were dominated by hunger, disease, and despair. Continuing niggardliness on the part of Congress in providing adequate agricultural equipment and instruction and an environment hostile to cultivation made agricultural self-sufficiency all but impossible.The continued reduct

About this title

About the Author:

Donald J. Berthrong is professor Emeritus of History, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He is a noted authority on the history of the Southern Cheyennes. He other books include The Southern Cheyennes, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press. In 1965 he served as a consultant and expert witness for the Southern Cheyennes before the Indian Claims Commission.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Art Museum Fort Worth
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0929865170
• ISBN 13: 9780929865171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 75