How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the FrontierHarvard University Press, 2005 M10 25 - 344 páginas Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth,nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land? |
Contenido
NATIVE PROPRIETORS | 10 |
MANHATTAN FOR TWENTYFOUR DOLLARS | 49 |
FROM CONTRACT TO TREATY | 85 |
A REVOLUTION IN LAND POLICY | 112 |
FROM OWNERSHIP TO OCCUPANCY | 150 |
REMOVAL | 191 |
RESERVATIONS | 228 |
ALLOTMENT | 257 |
EPILOGUE | 291 |
Notes | 297 |
Acknowledgments | 337 |
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How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier Stuart Banner Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier Stuart BANNER Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
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