Editorializing the Indian Problem by Robert Hays PAPERBACK 9780809327621

Editorializing the Indian ProblemThe New York Times on Native Americans, 1860-1900\nAuthor(s): Robert Hays\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press, United States\nImprint: Southern Illinois University Press\nISBN-13: 9780809327621, 978-0809327621\nSynopsis\nDrawing on four decades of \""\""New York Times\""\"" editorials, Robert Hays demonstrates the magnitude of the conflict between Native American and white European cultures as settlers and adventurers spread rapidly across the continent in the post - Civil War period. From 1860 through 1900, the \""\""Times\""\"" published nearly a thousand editorials on what was commonly called \""\""the Indian problem.\""\"" Selecting some of the best of these editorials, Hays gives readers what current accounts cannot: contemporary writers' perspectives on the public images of Native Americans and their place in a nation bent on expansion. Some editorials express the unbridled bitterness and raw ambition of a nation immersed in an.