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1.

The Dispossession of the American Indian, 1887-1934 » Read Now
by Janet A. McDonnell. 163 pgs.

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The Removal of the Cherokee Nation: Manifest Destiny or National Dishonor? » Read Now
by Louis Filler, Allen Guttmann. 118 pgs.

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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks » Read Now
by Mark David Spence. 190 pgs.

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This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited...
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This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. It focuses on specific policies of Indian removal developed at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks from the early 1870s to the 1930s.
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The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920 » Read Now
by Melissa L. Meyer. 342 pgs.

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"Under the guise of assimilation, U.S. government policies destroyed Anishinaabe adaptations and brought them increased poverty, disease, and diaspora", writes Melissa L. Meyer. Combining historical methods with approaches drawn from sociology, anthropology, and economics, and using a wide range of...
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"Under the guise of assimilation, U.S. government policies destroyed Anishinaabe adaptations and brought them increased poverty, disease, and diaspora", writes Melissa L. Meyer. Combining historical methods with approaches drawn from sociology, anthropology, and economics, and using a wide range of previously untapped sources, she examines in exacting detail the course of events leading to that conclusion. Rather than focusing on Indian-white relations alone, she views the matter in terms of relationships between the conservative Anishinaabe hands and their mediator "cousins", analogous culturally to the Canadian metis, to produce a study that is as compelling for its design as for its content.
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An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians » Read Now
by David J. Wishart . 310 pgs.

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..."An even-handed, elegantly presented and thoroughly researched example of the sort of work historical geographers need to be doing."-Journal of Historical Geography. "A...
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The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam: Forced Relocation through Two Generations » Read Now
by Joy A. Bilharz. 196 pgs.

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In the late 1950s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its intention to construct a dam along the Allegheny River in Warren, Pennsylvania. The building of the Kinzua Dam was highly controversial because it flooded one-third of the Allegany Reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Nearly...
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In the late 1950s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its intention to construct a dam along the Allegheny River in Warren, Pennsylvania. The building of the Kinzua Dam was highly controversial because it flooded one-third of the Allegany Reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Nearly six hundred Senecas were forced to abandon their homes and relocate, despite a 1794 treaty that had guaranteed them those lands in perpetuity.
In this revealing study, Joy A. Bilharz examines the short- and long-term consequences of the relocation of the Senecas. Granted unparalleled access to members of the Seneca Nation and reservation records, Bilharz traces the psychological, economic, cultural, and social effects over two generations. The loss of homes and tribal lands was heartwrenching and initially threatened to undermine the foundations of social life and subsistence economy for the Senecas. Over time, however, many Senecas have managed to adapt successfully to relocation, creating new socialnetworks, invigorating their educational system, and becoming more politically involved on local, tribal, and national levels.
Today the Kinzua Dam is, according to Bilharz, a "potent symbol" for the Senecas. For the younger generation, faced with a reservation land shortage, it represents powerlessness, providing them with ample reasons to blame their parents and to continue to mistrust the federal and state governments. For the older generation, the risen riverbanks have acquired an almost spiritual significance. In the evenings many continue to wander down to the reservoir banks "to be near where the 'old places' used to be".
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The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Part 2 "Indian Removal") » Read Now
by Francis Paul Prucha. 1310 pgs.

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'The author's detailed analysis of two centuries of federal policy makes The Great Father indispensable reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of American Indian policy.' - Journal of American History.
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Religion, Law, and the Land: Native Americans and the Judicial Interpretation of Sacred Land » Read Now
by Brian Edward Brown. 202 pgs.

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Examining a series of court decisions made during the 1980s regarding the legal claims of several Native American tribes who attempted to protect ancestrally revered lands from development schemes by the federal government, this book looks at important questions raised about the religious status of...
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Examining a series of court decisions made during the 1980s regarding the legal claims of several Native American tribes who attempted to protect ancestrally revered lands from development schemes by the federal government, this book looks at important questions raised about the religious status of land. The tribes used the First Amendment right of free exercise of religion as the basis of their claim, since governmental action threatened to alter the land which served as the primordial sacred reality without which their derivative religious practices would be meaningless. Brown argues that a constricted notion of religion on the part of the courts, combined with a pervasive cultural predisposition towards land as private property, marred the Constitutional analysis of the courts to deprive the Native American plaintiffs of religious liberty.
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Too Small a Place: The Removal of the Willamette Valley Indians, 1850-1856, in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Ronald Spores, Boyd. 22 pgs.

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No Idle Past: Uses of History in the 1830 Indian Removal Debates, in The Historian » Read Now
by Jason Meyers. 13 pgs.

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The Cultural Transformation of a Native American Family and Its Tribe, 1763-1995: A Basket of Apples (Chap. 5 "Removal, Betrayal, and Death") » Read Now
by Joel Spring. 214 pgs.

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After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880 » Read Now
by William G. McLoughlin. 440 pgs.

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The Cherokee Removal and the Fourteenth Amendment, in Duke Law Journal » Read Now
by Gerard N. Magliocca. 91 pgs.

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Documents of United States Indian Policy » Read Now
by Francis Paul Prucha. 396 pgs.

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The third edition of this landmark work adds forty new documents, which cover the significant developments in American Indian affairs since 1988. Among the topics dealt with are tribal self-governance, government-to-government relations, religious rights, repatriation of human remains, trust...
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The third edition of this landmark work adds forty new documents, which cover the significant developments in American Indian affairs since 1988. Among the topics dealt with are tribal self-governance, government-to-government relations, religious rights, repatriation of human remains, trust management, health and education, federal recognition of tribes, presidential policies, and Alaska Natives.
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