With Good Intentions: Quaker Work Among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870s

by Clyde A. Milner III

Western American History.

246 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1982

Reviews

[Sasha Wolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Milner does a good job of showing how the Quaker agents allowed cultural bias to overwhelm their reason, leading them to press the tribes they worked with to adopt farming practices which had already failed for white farmers (Quakers among them.)