| Author/Contributor(s): | Parman, Donald L |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Date: | 10/22/1994 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Parman's accomplishment lies in his ability to synthesize the saga of the numerous interactions among those seeking dominance. . . . Parman's balanced and comprehensive overview provides a handy guide to the subject for upper-division undergraduate and graduate collections. --Choice
Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century is an important contribution to understanding the development of the West and provides a clear and impressive analysis of evolving government policy and programs that impacted directly on the resident Indian people. --American Indian Culture and Research Journal
This is an impressive effort that provides the reader with a balanced view of a subject that tends to become polemic. --Books of the Southwest
The well-written and analytical narrative is backed with thirty-nine pages of notes and bibliography, which provide an enormous complement and establish a firm foundation of scholarship. --Nebraska History
This book is an important contribution that manages to give the reader a bird's-eye view of the regularities of twentieth-century Indian history, while at the same time conveying the local twists, complexities, and ironies of that history and of any generalizations we would make about it. . . . should be read by all scholars in Native American studies and American minority history. --Journal of American History
Parman's thoughtful book will be of interest to students, scholars, and anyone remotely interested in Indian-white relations during the twentieth century. --Pacific Historical Review
An appraisal that is both clear and balanced. --Margaret Connell Szasz, The University of New Mexico
Parman delivers on his promise to present a 'balanced' and 'objective' summary, and his synthesis is clearly written and enjoyable to read. The book holds important lessons for westerners and midwesterners. --The Annals of Iowa
Parman has written a concise overview that synthesizes the development of the twentieth-century West and how that development impacted Indian nations. --North Dakota History
A balanced and accessible overview of the last hundred years of Indian history in the American West. This even-handed and insightful account includes an assessment of the status of Native Americans in the West as the century comes to a close.