Stated First Printing, Ex-library, properly de-accessioned, with expected stamps, labels, marks, paste downs and protections. Card pocket with circulation cards present. From a HS library. An Elegy for the American Indian. The Destruction of the American Indian --- By His Enemies and By His Friends. From the back cover (pb): This is the story of a proud, profoundly wise culture, which now seems doomed to extinction. It is the story of the American Indian, who first had his lands wrested away, and now [1972] is undergoing the final destruction of his identity. There are many actors in this drama: the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its strangling lover's embrace; the last great chiefs and medicine men, struggling to keep alive their ancient traditions; the anthropologists and hippies, with their destructive invasions; the new Indian radicals, angry and divided; and above all, the ordinary Indians, in the reservations and in the cities, marked by the white world for spiritual death. It is history. It is news. It is tragedy.