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Living in the land of death : the Choctaw nation, 1830-1860 / Donna L. Akers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akers, Donna.
- Series:
- Native American series (East Lansing, Mich.)
- Native American series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Choctaw Indians--Relocation.
- Choctaw Indians.
- Choctaw Indians--Social conditions.
- Indians, Treatment of--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Indians of North America--Government relations--1789-1869.
- Indians of North America.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--19th century.
- United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
- United States. Indian Removal Act of 1830.
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845--Relations with Choctaw Indians.
- Jackson, Andrew.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Territory, or, as they knew it, the Land of the Dead (the route taken by the souls of Choctaw people after death on their way to the Choctaw afterlife). Their first few years in the new nation affirmed their name for the land, as hundreds more died from whooping cough, floods, starvation
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Ch. 1 - A Brief History of the Choctaw People to 1817; Ch. 2 - History, Change, and Tradition; Ch. 3 - The Physical and Spiritual World of the Choctaw People; Ch. 4 - After Doak's Stand: Indian Territory in the 1820's; Ch. 5 - A Perfect Picture of Chaos; Ch. 6 - A New Life in the Land of Death: Decade of Despair; Ch. 7 - Making Death Literal; Ch. 8 - Cultural Continuity and Change; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-87013-883-9
- OCLC:
- 606889965
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