"A most welcome history of the development of a national sense of Indianism. . . . If ever a topic and an era needed to be covered, it was this topic and this era. Mrs. Hertzberg has done a good job of marking out a trail for us to follow. . . . As the first credible history of Indian affairs on a national basis covering the years 1889 to 1934, it is a valuable book and indispensable to any understanding of what the situation is today."—Pacific Northwest Quarterly
"Beautifully focused upon a rather narrow but important historical period from about the tum of the century until the early New Deal. A well-researched study on a fresh aspect of Indian history is as welcome as it is rare. This book will be invaluable."—Commonweal
"Should be of immense importance to anyone concerned with relations between groups of varying racial backgrounds. . . . This is a work that deserves to be widely read."—The Canadian Historical Review
"The Search for an American Indian Identity "clearly points out that the solution to Indian problems does not lie in the direction these Indian 'leaders' have taken in trying to change Indian attitudes to the attitudes of the dominant white society, but that society must change its attitudes toward Indians and see us clearly and realistically as people with intrinsic values, moral, political, and religious, with as much right to exist as a culture as the newer society.""—Chief Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation, New York History
October 1981
