Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal (New Directions in Native American Studies Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806159650 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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The use of settler colonialism as a theoretical framework is also pretty underused--but the importance of his intervention is no Ai Bowes's book makes an important case for the localization of removal, rather than seeing Cherokee removal as the be-all, end-all of removal policy and how it operated. In many ways, Bowes's book takes that localization and makes it dizzyingly accurate--the chapters whip across location and time in their focus on each nation, and it can be difficult to keep all the actors in each chapter straight. The use of settler colonialism as a theoretical framework is also prett. Important Book Important subject in good series.. Andrew said Excellent. Dr. Bowes puts together a narrative that needed to be told and tells it in a clear, academic voice that never becomes pedantic.
John P. Bowes is Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University and author of several books on Indian removal, including Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West.
Bowes is Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University and author of several books on Indian removal, including Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West.. About the AuthorJohn P
He traces the paths taken by Delaware Indians in response to Euro-American expansion and U.S. Land Too Good for Indians reveals the deeper complexities of this crucial time in American history.. Bowes uses the 1833 Treaty of Chicago as a lens through which to examine the forces that drove the divergent removals of various Potawatomi communities from northern Illinois and Indiana. And in exploring the experiences of the Odawas and Ojibwes in Michigan Territory, he analyzes the historical context and choices that enabled some Indian communities to avoid relocation west of the Mississippi River. Bowes takes a long-needed closer, more expansive look at northern Indian removal—and in so doing amplifies the history of Indian removal and of the United States. The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In