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Peer reviewedBarsh, Russel Lawrence – Great Plains Quarterly, 1993
With the backing of America's wealthy citizenry, Joseph Dixon organized the 1913 Expedition of Citizenship in an effort to advance the acculturation of American Indians. Dixon's efforts were a melodramatic charade in which the Indians gained nothing but patriotic rituals, still practiced at tribal meetings and powwows. Too late, Dixon realized the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian History, American Indian Reservations, Citizenship
