A sympathetic yet objective account of the vacillating policies and attitudes affecting the education of the American Indian... Based on extensive interbviews as wel as archival and published sources, the book traces the shifts from assimilation to termination to self-determination and the disastrous results. The book, written with calm, almost clinical detachment, seeks neither heroes nor villains, but the failures are apparent. A valuable contribution to the study of Federal Indian policy and administration that will be useful to anyone with a serious interest in the subject...