Trail of Tears

The American Indian Removals, 1813-55

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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In 1830 the United States Congress passed a bill turning into law what had been until then unofficial policy: the forcible removal of those Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi and their resettlement in the West. The Removals were to prove merely the first step in the deliberate destruction of an entire people.Originally published in 1976, and making use of hitherto unpublished Indian sources, Gloria Jahoda’s book relates the history of Indian courage in the face of implacable white expansionism during the first half of the nineteenth century and shows how this expansionism led inexorably to the final massacre at Wounded Knee. The historical indictment is all the more telling and moving for the author’s scrupulous research and scholarship and her eloquent writing.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-11-01
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Revivals
Antal sidor366
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041404880

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Introduction: Holy Ground 1. Tahlonteskee Goes West and Quitewepea Brings an Invitation 2. Jacksa Chula Harjo Makes a Law 3. ‘Drunk, Sober, or Sick, We Will Move Them Along 4. ‘Under the Pressure of Hunger’ 5. The Lost Prince 6. Ma-Kka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak Goes to War 7. A Gathering of Vultures 8. The Road to Clear Boggy 9. The Life and Dath of Ma-to-toh-pe 10. Apostle to the People of Fire 11. White Bird’s Last Stand 12. Asi-Yaholo Makes a Promise 13. Pascofa Takes the Cup 14. Prayers for the White Chief 15. The Munificent Mr. Manypenny 16. Sir St. George Gore Goes Hunting. Appendix: Selected Government Documents on Indian Removal.

Original Reviews of The Trail of Tears:‘The strength of The Trail of Tears Is that it distributes literary attention beyond the so-called Five Civilised Tribes by pointing out that tribes residing in the Old Northwest and the Mississippi Valley also suffered immensely From this merciless uprooting and relocation.’ Arrell Morgan Gibson Western Historical Quarterly Volume 9 Issue 1 (1978). ‘A highly readable, well researched, and altogether fascinating account of a dreadful chapter in American history. Ms Jahoda’s scholarship is evident, yet it never gets in the way of her story and her outrage.’ Peter Farb‘Powerful…The Trail of Tears is an unrelenting narrative – sometimes poetic, sometimes heartbreaking – of Eastern America’s prelude to Wounded Knee.’ Dee Brown