Excerpt from Report of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples, 1908 Now I feel that these women whom I have had the great plea sure of bringing forward in the service have justified my judg ment by holding on until they have made good. And I wish, in introducing them this morning, to give you a slight idea of what each has been doing in her own field, and the reason for her advancement. First I am going to enter a domain in which women have ex celled for many generations. I refer to the preservation of the native arts. We have in one part of our southwestern field some Indians who are natural potters. Of course, in some respects their methods can be improved and they can be taught how to mix better material than that which they have been using and how to make more marketable wares. A woman who has devoted her private means, all her time, and all the money which could be raised through benevolent agencies, to this work of develop ing this pottery among the Pueblo Indians is one whom I shall present to you first, - Miss josephine foard, of Laguna, New Mexico. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

First published in 1987, American Indian Policy and American Reform examines key aspects of American Indian policy and reform in the context of American ethnic problems and traditions of reform. The first four chapters provide a chronological survey discussing racial attitudes, economic issues, the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, missionary and reformer involvement with government policy, the political interaction of Indians and whites, and other continuing differences between the two races. The second part of the book examines important themes which illuminate the difficulties of the assimilation campaign. In a series of case studies, Prof. Bolt explores Indian-black-white relations in the South and Indian Territory, American anthropologists and American Indians, Indian education from colonial times to the 20th century, Indian women, urban Indians since the Second World War and Indian political protest groups. This book will be of interest to students of American history, ‘minority’ history and race relations.