First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I
The little-known story of how army veterans returning to reservation life after World War I transformed Native American identity.
 
Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was reinvented in the years following World War I.
 
During that conflict, twelve thousand Native American soldiers served in the U.S. Army. They returned home to their reservations with newfound patriotism, leveraging their veteran cachet for political power and claiming all the benefits of citizenship—even supporting the termination policy that ended the U.S. government’s recognition of tribal sovereignty.
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First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I
The little-known story of how army veterans returning to reservation life after World War I transformed Native American identity.
 
Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was reinvented in the years following World War I.
 
During that conflict, twelve thousand Native American soldiers served in the U.S. Army. They returned home to their reservations with newfound patriotism, leveraging their veteran cachet for political power and claiming all the benefits of citizenship—even supporting the termination policy that ended the U.S. government’s recognition of tribal sovereignty.
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First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I

First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I

by Thomas Grillot
First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I

First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I

by Thomas Grillot

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The little-known story of how army veterans returning to reservation life after World War I transformed Native American identity.
 
Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was reinvented in the years following World War I.
 
During that conflict, twelve thousand Native American soldiers served in the U.S. Army. They returned home to their reservations with newfound patriotism, leveraging their veteran cachet for political power and claiming all the benefits of citizenship—even supporting the termination policy that ended the U.S. government’s recognition of tribal sovereignty.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300235326
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 06/24/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 312
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Thomas Grillot is editor-in-chief of the online publication La Vie des Idées, the author of Après la Grande Guerre, and a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Map of Indian nations and schools x

Introduction: The Problem of Indian Patriotism 1

1 Back in History? 16

2 The Names of Local Heroes 51

3 Patriotic Gifts 83

4 Bad Boys, Forgotten Heroes 123

5 Patriotic Rewards, New Freedoms 160

6 A Dream of Emancipation 197

Conclusion 223

Notes 247

Index 285

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