| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Battle for the BIA: G. E. E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier. By David W. Daily. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xii, 216 pp. $39.95, ISBN 08165-2437-8.)
David W. Daily, an assistant professor of religion at the University of the Ozarks in Arkansas, has written an engaging account of G. E. E. Lindquist, a Protestant evangelical missionary who influenced Indian affairs during the first half of the twentieth century. This book begins with an overview of Lindquist's early life, his involvement in the 1923 Indian dance controversy, and his national recognition for conducting an Inter-Church World Movement survey of the social, economic, and religious life of American Indians. Daily then follows chronologically Lindquist's conflict with Indian commissioner John Collier over the decision to curtail missionary activities at boarding schools, the Wheeler-Howard bill, administration of the Indian Reorganization Act, and termination of the federal trust.	1
Lindquist was a middle-class Swedish American who viewed ethnicity as a gateway rather than an obstacle to a broader national identity. Consequently, he rejected the radical assimilationist policies of reformers such as Richard Henry Pratt at Carlisle Academy. For Lindquist, evangelical Christianity provided tribal people with an opportunity to maintain aspects of their cultural heritage while gradually redefining themselves through moral rectitude, self-discipline, and material prosperity.	. . .

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