Redskins, ruffleshirts and rednecks Indian allotments in Alabama and Mississippi, 1830-1860

Summary: 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 head 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0806134356
Physical Description: print
217 pages illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press 1961.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	The removal crisis -- Negotiations -- The Choctaw speculation -- The Creek frauds -- The business of Creek land speculation -- Capital in Chickasaw speculation -- The New York and Mississippi land company -- Public land sales and the cession in trust -- The allotment policy and the public land system -- The Jacksonian remoal policy in retrospect.