Native Agency - Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs

"This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it sketches the visions of the future that Indians at the BIA and in Indian Country have been crafting for themselves"--

About the author

Valerie Lambert is associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill. An enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation, she is author of Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence, winner of the 2007 North American Indian Prose Award.

Product details

• Authors: Valerie Lambert
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2023
• EAN: 9781517914530
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1453-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Indigenous Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous