Fine Words and Promises: A History of Indian Policy and Its Impact on the Coast Reservation Tribes of Oregon in the Last Half of the Nineteenth - Paperback

by M. Susan Van Laere (Author)

This book's aim is to explain the premises on which this country built its policies toward the first inhabitants and to show how those strategies, built on invalid assumptions, altered forever the lives of millions of people. The book also deals with the complexities that government Indian agents faced in carrying out United States Indian policy in Oregon.