Indians in the Family : Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion / Dawn Peterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Dawn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adoption--Southern States--History--19th century.

Adoption.

Imperialism.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--Southern States--History--19th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Southern States--Politics and government--19th century.

Indians, Treatment of--Southern States--History--19th century.

Indians, Treatment of.

Slaveholders--Southern States--History--19th century.

Slaveholders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 3 halftones, 4 maps

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Through stories of a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents in early America, Dawn Peterson shows the role adoption and assimilation played in efforts to subdue Native peoples. As adults, adoptees used their education to thwart U.S. claims to their homelands, setting the stage for the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Adopting Indians into the Early U.S. Republic

2. American Indians and the Post- Revolutionary Era

3. Domestic Fronts on the Eve of 1812

4. A Choctaw Mother in Slave Country

5. Adoption in Andrew Jackson's Empire

6. Defending "Civilization"

7. Adoption and Diplomacy

8. Choctaw Schooling

9. Adoption and the Politics of Indian Removal

Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

0-674-97872-2

OCLC:

984616759