Description
President Andrew Jackson wanted to secure all 25 million acres east of the Mississippi River. When the indigenous tribes balked, Jackson offered treaties that promised a farm to each of an Indian family in exchange for the remaining land. Mary Elizabeth Young details the repercussions of these treaties for American Indians and Anglo-Indian relations. Few if any Indians ever saw that promised farmland, but the United States received its share-and more.
Author: Mary Elizabeth Young
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 09/05/2000
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.18w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9780806134352
ISBN10: 0806134356
BISAC Categories:
- History | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
- History | United States | 19th Century