Unspeakable Sadness The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians

Name: Unspeakable Sadness The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians
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ISBN: 9780803297951

ISBN-10: 0803297955

ISBN-13: 9780803297951

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Authors: David J. Wishart, David Wishart

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Of all the interactions between American Indians and Euro-Americans, none was as fundamental as the acquisition of the indigenous peoples’ lands. To Euro-Americans this takeover of lands was seen as a natural right, an evolution to a higher use; to American Indians the loss of homelands was a tragedy involving also a loss of subsistence, a loss of history, and a loss of identity. Historical geographer David J. Wishart tells the story of the dispossession process as it affected the Nebraska Indians—Otoe-Missouria, Ponca, Omaha, and Pawnee—over the course of the nineteenth century. Working from primary documents, and including American Indian voices, Wishart analyzes the spatial and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 7/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 309
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.97" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Lands And Lifestyles of The Nebraska Indians at The Beginning of The Nineteenth Century



Forces Of Intervention 1800-1854



Twilight Of Independence 1800-1854



Restriction To Reservations 1854-1861



Life on The Reservations In the 1860s



Hemmed In And Forced Out 1870-1885


Postscript: Twentieth- Century Reappraisal


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index