Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

Jeffrey Ostler

Published by Yale University Press 2019

Surviving Genocide

Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

Jeffrey Ostler

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300245264

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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.

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Ostler Jeffrey :

Jeffrey Ostler is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon and the author of The Lakotas and the Black Hills and The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note on Terminology Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: An Icy River and a Raging Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. DISEASE, WAR, AND DISPOSSESSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Part Two. PREPARING FOR REMOVAL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part Three. REMOVAL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Conclusion: Historians and Prophets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Appendix 1. The Question of Genocide in U.S. History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Appendix 2. Population Estimates by Nation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
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Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 512
Illustrations
- Other: 49 b-w illus.

eBook

Published: June 17, 2019
ISBN: 9780300245264