Record Nr.

UNINA9910821754603321

Autore

Akers Donna

Titolo

Living in the land of death : the Choctaw nation, 1830-1860 / / Donna L. Akers

Pubbl/distr/stampa


East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-87013-883-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Native American series

Disciplina

976.004/97387

Soggetti

Choctaw Indians - Relocation

Choctaw Indians - Social conditions

Indians, Treatment of - Southern States - History - 19th century

Indians of North America - Government relations - 1789-1869

United States Race relations

United States Politics and government 19th century

United States Social conditions To 1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Ch. 1 - A Brief History of the Choctaw People to 1817; Ch. 2 - History, Change, and Tradition; Ch. 3 - The Physical and Spiritual World of the Choctaw People; Ch. 4 - After Doak's Stand: Indian Territory in the 1820's; Ch. 5 - A Perfect Picture of Chaos; Ch. 6 - A New Life in the Land of Death: Decade of Despair; Ch. 7 - Making Death Literal; Ch. 8 - Cultural Continuity and Change; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Territory, or, as they knew it, the Land of the Dead (the route taken by the souls of Choctaw people after death on their way to the Choctaw afterlife). Their first few years in the new nation affirmed their name for the land, as hundreds more died from whooping cough, floods, starvation