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By Stephen J. Rockwell
The framers of the structure and the generations that equipped a robust and intrusive nationwide administrative kingdom within the late-eighteenth and 19th centuries. The romantic fable of an individualized, pioneering enlargement throughout an open West obscures nationally coordinated administrative and regulatory job in Indian affairs, land coverage, exchange coverage, infrastructure improvement, and a bunch of different factor components with regards to growth. Stephen J. Rockwell bargains a cautious examine the management of Indian affairs and its relation to different nationwide rules dealing with and shaping nationwide growth westward. during the 19th century, Indian affairs have been on the heart of issues approximately nationwide politics, the nationwide financial system, and nationwide social matters. Rockwell describes how a colourful and intricate nationwide administrative nation operated from the earliest days of the republic, lengthy ahead of the innovative period and the hot Deal.
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The Treaty of Washington (1836) with the Ottawa Indians of Michigan included $2,000 for medicine and health care. Hauptman, Between Two Fires, 132. Health care provisions were included in treaties with the Kiowa and Comanche (1867), the Crows (1868), and the Eastern Band of Shoshoni (1868): Stephen J. Kunitz, “The History and Politics of US Health Care Policy for American Indians and Alaskan Natives,” American Journal of Public Health 86 (October 1996), 1464; Timothy M. Westmoreland and Kathryn R.
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