The long, bitter trail : Andrew Jackson and the Indians

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The long, bitter trail : Andrew Jackson and the Indians

Title remainder

Andrew Jackson and the Indians

Statement of responsibility

Anthony F.C. Wallace ; consulting editor, Eric Foner

Creator

• Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-

Contributor

• Foner, Eric, 1943-

Subject

• Jackson, Andrew | Relations with Indians
• Relations with Indians
• Indianen
• Indians of North America | Relocation
• Indian Removal (1813-1903)
• Indians of North America | Government relations | 1789-1869
• Indians of North America -- Government relations
• Indians of North America -- Removal
• Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
• 1789-1903
• Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869
• Indian Removal, 1813-1903
• Indiens -- Relations avec l'État -- États-Unis -- 1789-1869
• Amérindien (peuple) -- déplacement | Jackson, Andrew -- Amérique du Nord -- sud-est -- 19e s
• Geschichte | 1789-1869
• Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Relations with Indians

Language

eng

Summary

Few issues in our history have proved as shameful as the white man's long conflict with Native Americans. The Indian Removal Act passed by Congress in 1830 was actively fostered by President Andrew Jackson. It called for eastern Indians to relocate west of the Mississippi River to the Oklahoma Territory - an early example of our government's racist policies. Anthony F.C. Wallace deals briefly with Indians of the Northeast, but focuses on the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast - Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles, whose ancestral lands were coveted by white settlers to meet exploding domestic and international demands for cotton. Andrew Jackson, Indian fighter and crafty negotiator, is at the book's center. He lived in an age dominated by self-serving moralists and untenable theories of Indians as savage, nomadic hunters who had to be either "civilized" or moved from the white man's path for their own good. The Indian removals in the 1830s over the Trail of Tears that led west culminated in tragedy for the Indians

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• A Critical issue

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

323.1/197073/09034

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E381

LC item number

.W29 1993

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

A Critical issue