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"Farewell, My Nation"

American Indians and the United States in the Nineteenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvPhilip Weeks,USA) Weeks, Philip (Kent State University

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The fully updated third edition of "Farewell, My Nation" considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white Americans, and the U.S. government during the nineteenth century, as the government tried to find ways to deal with social and political questions about how to treat America’s indigenous population. Updated to include new scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the second edition as well as additional primary source materialExamines the cultural and material impact of Western expansion on the indigenous peoples of the United States, guiding the reader through the significant changes in Indian-U.S. policy over the course of the nineteenth centuryOutlines the efficacy and outcomes of the three principal policies toward American Indians undertaken in varying degrees by the U.S. government – Separation, Concentration, and Americanization – and interrogates their repercussionsProvides detailed descriptions, chronology and analysis of the Plains Wars supported by supplementary maps and illustrations

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Utgivningsdatum2016-02-05
Mått147 x 224 x 23 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAmerican History Series
Antal sidor368
Upplaga3
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781118976777

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Philip Weeks, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of History at Kent State University, where, as a distinguished teaching award recipient, he taught American Indian studies, U.S., Ohio, and modern world history for many years. He is the editor or author of several books, including “They Made Us Many Promises”: The American Indian Experience 1524 to the Present (Wiley, 2001) and Buckeye Presidents: Ohioans in the White House (2003).

Preface ixAcknowledgments xi1 The “Indian Question” 1In Need of a Solution 1Breaching the Ohio Country Barrier 7The Shooting Star and the Prophet 182 The Initial Solution 35The Relocation Debate 35Tribal Strategies in the South 40The Cherokee–Georgia Conundrum 46Removing the Southern Tribes 52The Indian Territory and Its People 65Undermining Forces 74Dashed Hopes 813 The Travails of Mid Century 89Western Troubles and the New Solution 89Making Way for the Railroads 98The Texas Challenge 102Whether or Not to Be a Confederate 108Civil War in the Indian Territory 117Unrest in Minnesota 127Colorado and Sand Creek 1374 The Plains Wars, Phase I: Realizing Concentration 151Those Who Resisted: An Inescapable Fate? 153Indian Policy and Who Controlled It 159Defending the Powder River Country 166Dualism: Peace and Force Policies 176Commotion in Kansas 180Implementing Concentration 187With the Olive Branch and the Sword 1955 The Plains Wars, Phase II: Enforcing Concentration 209Again, Indian Affairs and Who Controls Them 210The Grant Peace Policy 214At the Watershed 221The Red River War 228The Peace That Slipped Away 236The Great Sioux War Commences 246The Great Sioux War Concludes 2596 The Search for a New Order 269Reforms and Jurisdictional Disputes 270Reappraising the Concentration Policy 279The Government’s Newest “Solution” 293Ending “Old and Injurious Habits” 301Americanization: White Rationalizations and Tribal Responses 306Dead Dreams 314Bibliographical Essay 326Index 338

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