TY - BOOK AU - Fixico,Donald Lee TI - The invasion of Indian country in the twentieth century: American capitalism and tribal natural resources SN - 9781607321491 AV - E93 .I583 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Boulder PB - University Press of Colorado KW - Indians of North America KW - Government relations KW - Natural resources KW - United States KW - Land tenure KW - Indian reservations KW - Indian land transfers KW - Indians KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; part 1. Elements of Indian society and policies --; part 2. Defense strategies for tribal natural resources; 2; b N2 - The struggle between Indians and whites for land did not end on the battlefields in the 1800s. When this hostile era closed with Native Americans forced onto reservations, no one expected that rich natural resources lay beneath these lands that white America would desperately desire. Yet oil, timber, fish, coal, water, and other resources were discovered to be in great demand in the mainstream market, and a new war began with Indian tribes and their leaders trying to protect their tribal natural resources throughout the twentieth century. History professor Donald Fixico details the course of this struggle, providing a wealth of information on the resources possessed by individual tribes and the way in which they were systematically defrauded and stripped of these resources. Fixico contends that federal policies originally devised to protect Indian interests ironically worked against the Indian nations as the tribes employed new tactics with the Council of Energy Resources Tribes, using the law in courts and applying aggressive business leadership to combat the capitalist invasion by mainstream America UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=430649&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -