Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century earlier by the removal, confinement, and scattering of Native Americans.

Richard Drinnon is the author of Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building (1980) and is Professor Emeritus of History at Bucknell University.

"This is a work that every student of racism in modern America will have to study and consider."—Roger Daniels, American Historical Review

"There exist many excellent studies of the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans and of the treatment of Indians in the United States. This book is unique in putting the two stories together."—Akira Iriye, Journal of American History

"Interesting, extremely well researched and unquestionably a rich resource tool."—Patrick S. Washburn, New York Times Book Review

"The most significant piece of extended scholarship yet produced on the subject of the Japanese-American evacuation."—Arthur H. Hansen, Arizona Historical Society Journal

Winner of The Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award given on the subject of intolerance in the United States