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The forced removal of American Indians from the northeast : a history of territorial cessions and relocations, 1620-1854 / David W. Miller.

By: Publication details: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2011.Description: viii, 215 p. : maps; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780786464968 (softcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 974.004/97 23
LOC classification:
  • E98.R4 M55 2011
Contents:
Kingdom of Saguenay (1497-1543) -- Iroquois conquests (1580-1653) -- Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay -- Destruction of the Pequot -- Next were the Narragansetts -- King Philip's War -- The fur trade and struggles between the French, English, and Indians (1641-1753) -- Pennsylvania (1681-1754) -- Iroquois route to the south -- Who owns land in the Ohio River watershed -- French and Indian War (1755-1763) -- War's aftermath in the north (Pontiac's War 1763-1764) -- Proclamation of 1763, lawlessness, and the British 1764 offensives -- Frontiersmen out of control and the 1768 Treaty at Fort Stanwix -- Land schemes -- Dunmore's War -- Early Kentucky settlements -- A new force emerges -- The northern frontier during the war years -- Indians betrayed -- Kentucke (1782-1792) -- Defining Indian boundaries in the Six Nations and north of the Ohio -- Chaos in the northwest -- The Ohio Company -- Negotiating for an Indian boundary for the northern tribes -- Washington's first offensive in the west flounders -- Another failure -- Mad Anthony prepares (1792-1793) -- Mad Anthony prevails : Treaty of Greenville (1794-1795) -- Taking over the Northwest Territory (1801-1819) -- More Indiana land ceded and the War of 1812 -- Mopping up in the lower Northwest Territory (1817-1847) -- Lead mines and the Black Hawk War -- Michigan and Wisconsin through the years 1807-1854.
Summary: "This work examines presidential policies, the cultural and community splits within the "Five Civilized Nations" (Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole) and the various ways in which Indians attempted to maintain their ethnic identity during their traumatic removal. It provides a window into the thoughts and attitudes of those on both sides of the controversy"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kingdom of Saguenay (1497-1543) -- Iroquois conquests (1580-1653) -- Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay -- Destruction of the Pequot -- Next were the Narragansetts -- King Philip's War -- The fur trade and struggles between the French, English, and Indians (1641-1753) -- Pennsylvania (1681-1754) -- Iroquois route to the south -- Who owns land in the Ohio River watershed -- French and Indian War (1755-1763) -- War's aftermath in the north (Pontiac's War 1763-1764) -- Proclamation of 1763, lawlessness, and the British 1764 offensives -- Frontiersmen out of control and the 1768 Treaty at Fort Stanwix -- Land schemes -- Dunmore's War -- Early Kentucky settlements -- A new force emerges -- The northern frontier during the war years -- Indians betrayed -- Kentucke (1782-1792) -- Defining Indian boundaries in the Six Nations and north of the Ohio -- Chaos in the northwest -- The Ohio Company -- Negotiating for an Indian boundary for the northern tribes -- Washington's first offensive in the west flounders -- Another failure -- Mad Anthony prepares (1792-1793) -- Mad Anthony prevails : Treaty of Greenville (1794-1795) -- Taking over the Northwest Territory (1801-1819) -- More Indiana land ceded and the War of 1812 -- Mopping up in the lower Northwest Territory (1817-1847) -- Lead mines and the Black Hawk War -- Michigan and Wisconsin through the years 1807-1854.

"This work examines presidential policies, the cultural and community splits within the "Five Civilized Nations" (Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole) and the various ways in which Indians attempted to maintain their ethnic identity during their traumatic removal. It provides a window into the thoughts and attitudes of those on both sides of the controversy"--Provided by publisher.

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