| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Indian Orphanages. By Marilyn Irvin Holt. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. x, 326 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1119-3.)

Native peoples and their communities to this day feel the aftershocks of the assimilationist policies employed by the United States government in the late nineteenth century. Then, federal policy makers and the so-called friends of the Indian imposed programs designed to eradicate tribalism through the destruction of the land base, the erosion of sovereignty, and the suppression of indigenous cultures. Traditional family life was one of the most notable casualties of this era. Now, more than a century later, many Indian tribes are working hard to restore the web of relationships that linked individuals to their immediate and extended families, their clan groups, and their tribes. . . .

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