Indian Rights Association Native American Chippewas Sioux Victorian Age 1885

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Indian Rights Association Native American Chippewas Sioux Victorian Age 1885 :
$192.00

Lot of 5 soft cover antique books/reports by the Indian Rights Association. From their Wiki page: “social activist group dedicated to the well-being and acculturation of Native Americans. Founded by non-Indians in Philadelphia in 1882, the Indian Rights Associations (IRA) was highly influential in American Indian policy through the 1930s and remained involved as an organization until 1994. The organization\'s initial stated objective was to \"bring about the complete civilization of the Indians and their admission to citizenship.\" 19th and 20th Century groups such as the Indian Rights Association considered themselves the \"friends of the Indian\" but, by modern standards, had little understanding of the cultural patterns and needs of Native Americans…” This is a lot of 5 dating from 1885 to 1889, the 2nd to the 6th annual reports. Average about 50 pages each. Amazing historic info in here includes Chippewas of White Earth Minnesota, Great Sioux Reservation of Dakota, commissioner of Indian affairs, starving Indians in Montana, organization finances and by-laws and more.