Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal (New Directions in Native American Studies Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806159650 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bowes focuses on four case studies that exemplify particular elements of removal in the Old Northwest. He also considers the removal experience among the Seneca-Cayugas, Wyandots, and other Indian communities in the Sandusky River region of northwestern Ohio. In expanding the context of removal to include the Old Northwest, and adding a portrait of Native communities there before, during, and after removal, Bowes paints a more accurate—and complicated—picture of American Indian history in the nineteenth century. 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. But Indian removal in the Old Northwest was much more complicated—i
"The use of settler colonialism as a theoretical framework is also pretty underused--but the importance of his intervention is no" according to 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 s. Important Book Vinnie Dickinson Important subject in good series.. Excellent Andrew 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