Indians of the Americas: The Long Hope

Collier, John, Indians of the Americas: the long hope, (slightly abridged), New York: The New American Library of World Literature, 1947. {Extremely fragile}

Contents:

PART ONE – OUT OF THE PAST
1. The American Indian and the Long Hope
2. The Indian of Prehistory

PART TWO – SOUTH OF THE RIO GRANDE
3. The Empire of the Incas
4. The Dominion of the Aztecs
5. The Spanish Conquest
6. Spanish Rule and Las Casas
7. The Continuing Spanish Record
8. The Indians and the Republics

PART THREE – NORTH OF THE RIO GRANDE
9. The Indians of the United States
10. Conquest North of the Rio Grande
11. Iroquois and Cherokees
12. California and the Plains Indians
13. The Final Struggle Commences and Prevails
14. The Indian New Deal

PART FOUR – INTO THE FUTURE
15. The First Inter-American Conference on Indian Life
16. Summary and Prediction
Index

John Collier (May 4, 1884 - May 8, 1968) was an American social reformer and Native American advocate. He served as Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, from 1933-1945. He is considered chiefly responsible for the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, which he intended to correct some of the problems in federal policy toward Native Americans. It was considered to aid in ending the loss of reservations lands held by Indians, and making some progress for enabling tribal nations to re-institute self-government.