Farewell, My Nation American Indian and the United States in the Nineteenth Century

Name: Farewell, My Nation American Indian and the United States in the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780882959566

ISBN-10: 0882959565

ISBN-13: 9780882959566

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Philip Weeks

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Like its predecessor, the second edition of Philip Week's highly popular volume illuminates the problems caused by westward expansion in the nineteenth century, as battle after battle was fought, treaty after treaty was broken. Weeks discusses the three possible resolutions undertaken in varying degrees by the U.S. government –separation, concentration, and Americanization– as he guides the reader through the significant changes in Indian-White relations during this pivotal time.Informed by the latest scholarship and expanded to consider the entire scope of U.S-Indian relations in the nineteenth century, the second edition of the engaging Farewell, My Nation provides important supplemental…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/11/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Dead Dreams



The “Indian Question”


Arrival through the American Revolution


Breaching the Ohio Country


Tecumseh, Gradualists, and Removalists


Toward a Policy of Separation


Removing the Southern Tribes



The Changing West


Fashioning the Indian Territory


Dashed Hopes


A New Solution


Concentration in the Indian Territory and Texas



The Civil War Years


Civil War in the Indian Territory


The Santee Sioux Uprising


Colorado and Sand Creek



The Plains Wars, Phase I: Realizing Concentration


Post-Civil War Indian Policy


Those Who Resisted Concentration


Olive Branch and Sword


The Myth of Peace



The Plains Wars, Phase II: Enforcing Concentration


Grant’s “Peace Policy”


At the Watershed


The Peace That Slipped Away


The Last Great Struggle


“To Conquer a Lasting Peace”



The Search for New Order


Reforms and Jurisdictional Disputes


Reappraising the Concentration Policy


Americanization: Something Old and New


“To Make the World Wiser and Better”


Aftermath: A Brief Profile of the Twentieth Century


Bibliographical Essay 251


Index


Maps:


Removal of the Tribes of the South and Old Northwest


The Plains Indians and Western Trails


Great Plains, circa 1860-1875


Northern Great Plains, circa 1875-1890


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