Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South - Rilegato

Haveman, Christopher D.

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ISBN 10: 0803273924 ISBN 13: 9780803273924

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2016

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2017 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association 
2017 James Mooney Award

At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks in removing the squatters, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness. Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the forced migrations beginning in 1836, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were relocated—voluntarily or involuntarily—to Indian Territory. Rivers of Sand fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing, for the first time, the full breadth and depth of the Creeks’ collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first years of resettlement.
Unlike the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which was conducted largely at the end of a bayonet, most Creeks were removed through a combination of coercion and negotiation. Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel were forced to make concessions in order to gain the compliance of the headmen and their people. Christopher D. Haveman’s meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents to weave narratives of resistance and survival, making Rivers of Sand an essential addition to the ethnohistory of American Indian removal.

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L'autore:

Christopher D. Haveman is an assistant professor of history at the University of West Alabama.

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• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0803273924
• ISBN 13: 9780803273924
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 414