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SOURCE: A review of American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century, in The Historian, Vol. XLIX, No. 2, February, 1987, pp. 287-88.
In the following review, Colbert asserts that the essays in Deloria's American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century are educational and informative.
Native American studies programs at colleges and universities have increased in number and size over the last twenty years. Likewise, the amount of scholarly activity focusing on Indian life and history has proliferated. However, much of the endeavor, especially within the discipline of history, has centered on Indian-white relations in the years before the twentieth century. Consequently, even a specialist on Native American history might, for example, be uncomfortable and uniformed when discussing Nixon's self-determination policy. And that circumstance, as well as other considerations, enhances the benefits to be derived from this collection of eleven essays[, American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century]—edited by Vine...
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