| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations. By Charles Wilkinson. (New York: Norton, 2005. xvi, 543 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-393-05149-8.)

This study of Indian affairs in recent American history begins with two chapters summarizing the "deadening years" of Indian policies before the mid-twentieth century that gradually tore Indians from traditional cultures and political autonomy, robbed them of land and resources, and deepened their poverty (p. 27). Charles Wilkinson then turns his attention to the 1950s policy of termination, which he refers to as the "abyss." That understanding comes closer to older, more critical works on that controversial policy than it does to other recent publications that have offered more sympathetic interpretations and do not portray termination as much of a departure from the policy of acceptance of tribal cultures and Indian sovereignty initiated by John Collier and his Indian New Deal in the 1930s.

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