The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians : Volumes 1&2 in 1 Book

The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians : Volumes 1&2 in 1 Book by Prucha, Francis Paul. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780803287341.

The Great Father was widely praised and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. It is a comprehensive history of the relations between the U.S. government and the Indians. Covering the two centuries from the Revolutionary War to 1980, the book traces the development of American Indian policy and the growth of the bureaucracy created to implement that policy.