03305nam 2200673Ia 450 991046306870332120200520144314.00-87013-883-9(CKB)2670000000386353(EBL)1742438(SSID)ssj0001034972(PQKBManifestationID)11577637(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001034972(PQKBWorkID)11028921(PQKB)10357937(MiAaPQ)EBC3338325(OCoLC)606889965(MdBmJHUP)muse29188(Au-PeEL)EBL3338325(CaPaEBR)ebr10721342(OCoLC)884016163(EXLCZ)99267000000038635320040109d2004 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrLiving in the land of death[electronic resource] the Choctaw nation, 1830-1860 /Donna L. AkersEast Lansing Michigan State University Pressc20041 online resource (241 p.)Native American seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-87013-684-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-195) and index.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; IndexWith 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, starvationNative American series (East Lansing, Mich.)Choctaw IndiansRelocationChoctaw IndiansSocial conditionsIndians, Treatment ofSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryIndians of North AmericaGovernment relations1789-1869United StatesRace relationsUnited StatesPolitics and government19th centuryUnited StatesSocial conditionsTo 1865Electronic books.Choctaw IndiansRelocation.Choctaw IndiansSocial conditions.Indians, Treatment ofHistoryIndians of North AmericaGovernment relations976.004/97387Akers Donna983090MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463068703321Living in the land of death2243845UNINA