The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855【電子書籍】[ William E. Unrau ]

＜p＞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 them out of their land.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This first book-length study of “Indian country” focuses on Section 1 of the 1834 Actーwhich established its boundariesー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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Encompassing more than half of the Louisiana Purchase and stretching from the Red River to the headwaters of the Missouri, Indian country was designated as a place for Native survival．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る