Saving the Reservation
Subtitle: Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780295981536
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Biography: general; Indigenous peoples; Political activism; 20th century; U.S. - Political And Civil Rights Of Native Americans; History; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; USA; Historical - U.S.; Native American; Native Americans; Cultural Heritage; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; 1910-1975; Biography; Coeur d'Alene Indians; Garry, Joe,; Indian activists; Indian civic leaders; Skitswish Indians; United States
Description: "Joseph R. Garry (1910-1975), a Coeur d'Alene Indian, served six terms as president of the National Congress of American Indians in the 1950s. He led the battles to compel the federal government to honor treaties and landownership and dominated an era in government-Indian relations little attended by historians.

Firmly believing that forced assimilation of Indians and termination of federal trusteeship over Native Americans and their reservations would doom Indian cultures, Garry had his greatest success as a leader in uniting American Indian tribes to fend off Congress's plan to abandon Indian citizens."--BOOK JACKET.