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Francis Paul Prucha (January 4, 1921 – July 30, 2015) was an American historian, professor emeritus of history at Marquette University, [1] and specialist in the relationship between the United States and Native Americans. [2]
According to historian Francis Paul Prucha, "the Christian crusade against the removal of the Indians died with Evarts." The effect that Evarts's activism for the rights of indigenous peoples had on U.S. foreign policy through his son, William M. Evarts who was Secretary of State during the Hayes administration (1877–1881), is a question for ...
Francis Paul Prucha, American Jesuit, historian, professor emeritus of history at Marquette University; Vlasta Průchov ...
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West is a 1970 non-fiction book by American writer Dee Brown.It explores the history of American expansionism in the American West in the late nineteenth century and its devastating effects on the indigenous peoples living there.
Similarly, historian Francis Paul Prucha argued that removal was the best of the four options that presented themselves, the other three being genocide, assimilation into white culture, and protection of tribal lands against settler encroachment, the last of which Prucha, like Remini, saw as unachievable. [49]
The American Indian Policy Review Commission was a commission established in 1975 with Public Law 93-580 during the 93rd Congress. [1] The commission was established in order to conduct a comprehensive review of the relationship between the USA federal government and Native Americans. [2]
Jefferson's desire, as interpreted by Francis Paul Prucha, was for Native Americans to intermix with European Americans and become one people. [31] [32] To achieve that end as president, Jefferson offered US citizenship to some Indian nations and proposed offering them credit to facilitate trade. [33] [34]
In response, Catholic Bureau director Paul Lenz founded an Association of Catholic Indian Schools, which in June 1983, coordinated plans to maintain the schools through direct mail campaigns, personal appeals and wills of request. After Pope Paul VI restored the permanent deaconate in 1967, the ranks of deacons began to include Native Americans ...