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The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855 / William E. Unrau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Unrau, William E., 1929-2016, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
- United States.
- Territorial expansion.
- Race relations.
- Land tenure--Government policy.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Indians of North America--Government relations.
- Land tenure--Government policy--United States--History--19th century.
- Land tenure.
- Forced migration--Government policy--United States--History--19th century.
- Forced migration.
- Indians, Treatment of--United States--History--19th century.
- Indians of North America.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2007]
- Summary:
- "The Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1834 represented what many considered the ongoing benevolence of the United States toward Native Americans, establishing a congressionally designated refuge for displaced Indians to protect them from exploitation by white men. Others came to see it as a legally sanctioned way to swindle Indians out of their land." "This first book-length study of "Indian country" focuses on Section 1 of the 1834 Act - which established its boundaries - to show that this legislation was ineffectual from the beginning. William Unrau challenges conventional views that the act was a continuation of the government's benevolence toward Indians, revealing it instead as little more than a deceptive stopgap that facilitated white settlement and development of the trans-Missouri West." "Unrau's work shows that there has been a general misunderstanding of Indian country both then and now - that it was never more or less than what the white man said it was, not what the Indians were told or believed - and represents a significant chapter in the shameful history of America's treatment of Indians."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- Looking backward
- Reconnaissance
- Preparing the way
- Promise
- Presence
- Proscription
- Compression
- Intrusion
- Illusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-187) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700636839
- 0700636838
- OCLC:
- 1450430900
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