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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: 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.
Subject:
Chickasaw Indians > Land tenure.
Choctaw Indians > Land tenure.
Creek Indians > Land tenure.
Land tenure > Mississippi.
Land tenure > Alabama.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library E 98 .L3 Y68 1961 255686 Stacks Available -