The Evolution of the Modern American Indian

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The following pages are a story of nation rebuilding, and Indians reinventing themselves. Answers for a better way of life were desperately needed on reservations. They have worked hard to try to restore their communities and tribal governments. Are they not supposed to? Or, who cares? To Indian people, it does matter that Indians are addressing the problem. These colonized people who seemed on the verge of extinction in 1890 have turned around 180 degrees. They have become major players in some regions of the United States in the early twenty-first century.

It is important to understand the impressive progress and the driving forces that have made this possible for the majority of the Indians nations in more or less one hundred years. The Native people reinvented themselves in order to rebuild their nations.

In this book, we are beginning the exploration of America’s deeper, uncharted history of the American Indian.

Richard Castagner

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