United States Bureau of Indian Affairs

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Works:	6,399 works in 9,584 publications in 2 languages and 188,123 library holdings
Genres:	History Biography Charters and articles of incorporation Digests Constitution Reference works Pictorial works
Roles:	Composer, Editor, Originator, Other, Cartographer

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Most widely held works about United States

Cry dance by Kirk Mitchell( Book )
Ancient ones by Kirk Mitchell( Book )
Spirit sickness by Kirk Mitchell( Book )
Sky woman falling by Kirk Mitchell( Book )
Dark Reservations by John Fortunato( Book )

Dance of the thunder dogs by Kirk Mitchell( Book )
The Bureau of Indian Affairs by Theodore W Taylor( Book )
The assault on assimilation : John Collier and the origins of Indian policy reform by Lawrence C Kelly( Book )
Indians and bureaucrats : administering the reservation policy during the Civil War by Edmund Jefferson Danziger( Book )
The problem of Indian administration; report of a survey made at the request of Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, and submitted to him, February 21, 1928 by Brookings Institution( Book )
Wounded Knee 1973 : a personal account by Stanley David Lyman( Book )
A history of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its activities among Indians by Curtis Emanuel Jackson( Book )
The world's richest Indian : the scandal over Jackson Barnett's oil fortune by Tanis C Thorne( Book )
Federal fathers & mothers : a social history of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 by Cathleen D Cahill( Book )
To live heroically : institutional racism and American Indian education by Delores J Huff( Book )
Examining tribal programs and initiatives proposed in the president's fiscal year 2011 budget : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, February 25, 2010 by United States( Book )
Examining Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal police recruitment, training, hiring, and retention : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, March 18, 2010 by United States( Book )
The president's fiscal year 2012 budget for tribal programs : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, March 15, 2011 by United States( Book )
The effectiveness of federal spending on Native American programs and the president's FY 2012 budget request for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by United States( Book )

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Most widely held works by United States

Famous Indians; a collection of short biographies by United States( Book )

23 editions published between 1966 and 2000 in English and held by 854 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Most - but not all - of the Indian personalities whose lives are briefly described here were chiefs; all were leaders in a great struggle to preserve treasured lands and ways of life

The Navaho by Clyde Kluckhohn( Book )

14 editions published between 1946 and 1964 in English and held by 853 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Studies the past and present living conditions, social values, and beliefs of the largest Indian tribe in the United States

A history of Indian policy by S. Lyman Tyler( Book )

2 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 806 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The study brings together in one work a brief history of American Indian policy in the United States for the use of students, teachers, government employees, and the general reader. More detail has been supplied for the period since 1930 to enable the reader to see the processes involved in the adoption, administration, and eventual changes in Indian policy. The center of attention has been the development and changes of policy. Historical information concerning the Bureau of Indian Affairs (bia), and general history has been supplied only as necessary to understand the policy changes. The 10 chapters cover: the nature of Indian policy; the Indian and the European; treaties and Indian trade; tribal removal and concentration westward; reservations for Indian tribes; allotments to individual Indians; tribal reorganization; Indian relocation and tribal termination; Indian policy and American life in the 1960's; self determination through Indian leadership, 1968 to 1972; and Indian policy goals for the early 1970'S. The bibliography includes general reference works, unpublished materials, government documents, bia publications, books, newspapers, and periodical literature. The appendix gives dates significant in the development of Indian policy and administrators of U.S. Federal Indian policy from 1789 to the present. (Km)

The Hopi way by Laura Thompson( Book )

17 editions published between 1944 and 2013 in English and held by 781 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A sociological study of the Hopi Indians

Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States : collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per act of Congress of March 3rd, 1847 by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft( Book )

12 editions published in 1969 in English and held by 601 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Most volumes divided into 18 sections: General history, Manners and customs, Antiquities, Geography of the Indian country, Tribal organization, history and government, Intellectual capacity and character, Topical history, Physical type of the Indian race, Language, State of Indian art, Present condition and prospects, Demonology, magic, and witchcraft, Medical knowledge, Literature of the Indian languages, Statistics and population, Biography, Religion, Ethnology. Vol. 6 is divided into 2 sections: A condensed view of the Post-Columbian; and Economy and statistics, capacity of industrial and social development, and national position, illustrated by some notices of the mental character of the hunter race, and their ancient status and archaeology

Warriors without weapons; a study of the society and personality development of the Pine Ridge Sioux by Gordon Macgregor( Book )

4 editions published between 1946 and 2011 in English and held by 501 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The second of five integrative studies of Indian personality produced as parrt of the Indian education research project ... undertaken jointly by the Committee on human development of the University of Chicago and the United States office of Indian affairs."

People of the middle place; a study of the Zuni Indians by Dorothea Cross Leighton( Book )

12 editions published between 1963 and 1971 in English and held by 499 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Corporate charter of the Native Village of Tununak, Alaska : approved May 23, 1939 by Native Village of Tatitlek( Book )

27 editions published in 1950 in English and held by 420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The potential of breccia pipes in the Mohawk Canyon Area, Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona by Karen J Wenrich( Book )

4 editions published between 1990 and 1992 in English and held by 393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Geology and geochemistry of the Coulee Dam Intrusive Suite and associated younger intrusive rocks, Colville batholith Washington by Diane H Carlson( Book )

5 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 278 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Geology and geochemistry of plutonic and hypabyssal intrusive rocks northeast of Grand Coulee Dam, Washington

Coal resources of the Fruitland Formation in part of the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation, San Juan County, New Mexico by Laura N. Robinson Roberts( Book )

4 editions published between 1990 and 1991 in English and held by 278 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Geology of the La Vida Mission quadrangle, San Juan and McKinley counties, New Mexico by Ralph L Miller( Book )

4 editions published between 1990 and 1991 in English and held by 276 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Evaluation of coal resources in the eastern part of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana by Laura H Biewick( Book )

4 editions published between 1988 and 1990 in English and held by 267 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pleistocene glacial-lake deposits of the Sanpoil River valley, northeastern Washington by Brian F Atwater( Book )

3 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 261 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The potential of breccia pipes in the National Tank Area, Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona by Karen J Wenrich( Book )

4 editions published between 1985 and 1989 in English and held by 251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Corporate charter of the Native Village of Savoonga, Alaska : ratified April 10, 1940 by Native Village of Savoonga( Book )

15 editions published in 1951 in English and held by 226 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Digest of decisions relating to Indian affairs by United States( Book )

11 editions published between 1901 and 1973 in English and held by 220 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hydrogeology of the Cenozoic igneous rocks, Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah by J. P Akers( Book )

6 editions published between 1965 and 1971 in English and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Corporate charter of the Akiak Native Community, Alaska : approved May 11, 1949 by Akiak Native Community( Book )

8 editions published in 1950 in English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mesozoic formations in the Comobabi and Roskruge Mountains, Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona by L. A Heindl( Book )

3 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 116 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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