To show heart
Subtitle: Native American self-determination and federal Indian policy, 1960-1975
By: George Pierre Castile.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Government relations.; Indians of North America -- Politics and government.; Self-determination, National -- United States.
Description: To Show Heart is a detailed and unbiased account of one of the least understood periods in Indian affairs. It tells how "termination" became a political embarrassment during the civil rights movement, how Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty prompted politicians to rethink Indian policy, and how championing self-determination presented an opportunity for Presidents Nixon and Ford to "show heart" toward Native Americans.

Along the way, Castile assesses the impact of the Indian activism of the 1960s and 1970s and offers an objective view of the American Indian Movement and the standoff at Wounded Knee. He also discusses the recent history of individual tribes, which gives greater meaning to decisions made at the national level.

To Show Heart is an important book not only for anthropologists and historians but also for Native Americans themselves, who will benefit from this inside look at how bureaucrats have sought to determine their destinies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: The New Frontier and the New Trail; title: The great society : tribes and warriors; title: A new goal : self-determination; title: New federalism and a new era; title: The media's chiefs; title: Between Mandate and Watergate; title: After the fall : Ford in for Nixon.