Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy 9780773562431

Agriculture on Plains Indian reserves is generally thought to have failed because the Native peoples lacked either an in

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Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy
 9780773562431

Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Figures
Preface
Introduction
1 Two Solitudes: Myth and Reality of the Plains Indian and Agriculture
2 The "Queen's Bounty": Government Response to Indian Agitation for Agricultural Assistance
3 The Home Farm Experiment
4 Assault upon the "Tribal" System: Government Policy after 1885
5 The Pioneer Experience: Prairie Reserve Agriculture
6 Prelude to Surrender: Severalty and "Peasant" Farming
7 Without a Leg to Stand On: Undermining Reserve Agriculture
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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