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Taking Indian lands : the Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889-1893 / William T. Hagan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hagan, William T., 1918-2011.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian land transfers--Indian Territory.
- Indian land transfers.
- United States. Cherokee Commission.
- United States.
- Indians of North America--Government relations.
- Indians of North America.
- Physical Description:
- x, 279 pages : maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Authorized by Congress in 1889, the Cherokee Commission was formed to negotiate the purchase of huge areas of land from the Cherokees, Ioways, Pawnees, Poncas, Tonakawas, Wichitas, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Sac and Fox, and other tribes in Indian Territory. Whatever the hoped-for effects, the coerced sales opened to white settlement the vast "unused" expanses of land that had been held communally by the tribes. In "Taking Indian Lands," William T. Hagan presents a detailed and disturbing account of the deliberations between the Cherokee Commission and the tribes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0806135131
- OCLC:
- 50227650
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