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04964aam a22004578i 4500 001 BB9F90E6C6D111E8B1BC915097128E48 003 SILO 005 20181003010030 008 180216t20182018ilu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2017048174 020 $a 0809336707 020 $a 9780809336708 035 $a (OCoLC)1002128996 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a E93 $b .S87 2018 082 00 $a 323.1197 $2 23 084 $a HIS036040 $a BIO011000 $a HIS036040 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Stockwell, Mary, $e author. 245 10 $a Interrupted Odyssey : $b Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians / $c Mary Stockwell. 263 $a 1808 264 1 $a Carbondale : $b Southern Illinois University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a ix, 256 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 490 0 $a The world of Ulysses S. Grant 505 0 $a One man's journey -- Parallel lives -- A better world ahead -- The dawn of a revolt -- Interrupted odyssey -- A sea of change -- War on the far horizon -- The web of corruption -- A forgotten legacy. 520 $a "In this first book devoted to the genesis, failure, and lasting legacy of Ulysses S. Grant's comprehensive American Indian policy, Mary Stockwell shows Grant as an essential bridge between Andrew Jackson's pushing Indians out of the American experience and Franklin D. Roosevelt's welcoming them back in. Situating Grant at the center of Indian policy development after the Civil War, Interrupted Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians reveals the bravery and foresight of the eighteenth president in saying that Indians must be saved and woven into the fabric of American life. In the late 1860s, before becoming president, Grant collaborated with Ely Parker, a Seneca Indian who became his first commissioner of Indian affairs, on a plan to rescue the tribes from certain destruction. Grant hoped to save the Indians from extermination by moving them to reservations, where they would be guarded by the U.S. Army, and welcoming them into the nation as American citizens. By so doing, he would restore the executive branch's traditional authority over Indian policy that had been upended by Jackson. In Interrupted Odyssey, Stockwell rejects the common claim in previous Grant scholarship that he handed the reservations over to Christian missionaries as part of his original policy. In part because Grant's plan ended political patronage, Congress overturned his policy by disallowing Army officers from serving in civil posts, abandoning the treaty system, and making the new Board of Indian Commissioners the supervisors of the Indian service. Only after Congress banned Army officers from the Indian service did Grant place missionaries in charge of the reservations, and only after the board falsely accused Parker of fraud before Congress did Grant lose faith in his original policy.Initiate Another SILO Locator Search
Stockwell explores in depth the ousting of Parker, revealing the deep-seated prejudices that fueled opposition to him, and details Grant's stunned disappointment when the Modoc murdered his peace commissioners and several tribes--the Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Sioux--rose up against his plans for them.
Though his dreams were interrupted through the opposition of Congress, reformers, and the tribes themselves, Grant set his country firmly toward making Indians full participants in the national experience. In setting Grant's contributions against the wider story of the American Indians, Stockwell's bold, thoughtful reappraisal reverses the general dismissal of Grant's approach to the Indians as a complete failure and highlights the courage of his policies during a time of great prejudice"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Stockwell shows how Grant was the one key figure between President Andrew Jackson, who pushed the tribes out of the American experience, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who welcomed them back in, who was the brave enough to say the Indians must be saved, not exterminated, and made citizens of the United States"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Grant, Ulysses S. $q (Ulysses Simpson), $d 1822-1885 $x Relations with Indians. 600 17 $a Grant, Ulysses S. $q (Ulysses Simpson), $d 1822-1885. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00061535 650 0 $a Indians of North America $x Government relations. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Native American. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Indians of North America $x Government relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00969761 650 7 $a Relations with Indians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354269 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214014805.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191003013249.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BB9F90E6C6D111E8B1BC915097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWA