How the Indians lost their land : law and power on the frontier / Stuart Banner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banner, Stuart, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Land tenure.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Indian land transfers--United States--History.

Indian land transfers.

Property--United States.

Property.

Land tenure--Law and legislation--United States.

Land tenure.

Land tenure--Government policy--United States.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p. ) ill., port.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. How did Indians actually lose their land? Stuart Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Native Proprietors

2. Manhattan for Twenty-four Dollars

3. From Contract to Treaty

4. A Revolution in Land Policy

5. From Ownership to Occupancy

6. Removal

7. Reservations

8. Allotment

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-336) and index.

ISBN:

9780674020535

0674020537

OCLC:

1049632543