Surviving genocide : Native nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas / Jeffrey Ostler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ostler, Jeffrey, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians, Treatment of--North America--History.

Indians, Treatment of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to the start of the Civil War. An authoritative contribution to the history of the United States' violent path toward building a continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens our understanding of the seizure of Indigenous lands, including the use of treaties to create the appearance of Native consent to dispossession. Ostler also documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide by creating alliances, defending their towns, and rebuilding their communities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Terminology

Introduction: An Icy River and a Raging Sea

Part One. DISEASE, WAR, AND DISPOSSESSION

Part Two. PREPARING FOR REMOVAL

Part Three. REMOVAL

Conclusion: Historians and Prophets

Appendix 1. The Question of Genocide in U.S. History

Appendix 2. Population Estimates by Nation

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300245264

0300245262

OCLC:

1099434736