02824nam 22006015 450 991048484890332120250610110435.09783030314675303031467710.1007/978-3-030-31467-5(CKB)4100000009678435(MiAaPQ)EBC5967916(DE-He213)978-3-030-31467-5(Perlego)3482774(MiAaPQ)EBC29092808(EXLCZ)99410000000967843520191026d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Half Breed Tracts in Early National America Changing Concepts of Land and Place /by David Ress1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,2019.1 online resource (132 pages)Includes index.9783030314668 3030314669 1. Introduction: A Caught-Between People and an Undefined Land -- 2. Blondeau's Dilemma -- 3. Separation or Separate Property: The Unsettling Prospect of Ownership -- 4. Washington's Dilemma -- 5. The Courthouse Coup in Iowa -- 6. Scrip and the Taking of the Minnesota Half Breed Tract -- 7. Taking the Nebraska Half Breed Tract -- 8. Charley's land -- 9. Conclusion.In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers. The treaties that established these so-called Half Breed Tracts left undefined exactly who held claim to the land, and by the end of the 1850s, settlers and speculators had appropriated virtually every acre for themselves. But in an era of ravenous westward expansion, why did the process of dispossession require three decades of debate and legal maneuvering? As David Ress argues, the fate of the Half Breed Tracts challenges longstanding ideas about land tenure and community in early national America.United StatesHistoryImperialismLawHistoryUS HistoryImperialism and ColonialismLegal HistoryUnited StatesHistory.Imperialism.LawHistory.US History.Imperialism and Colonialism.Legal History.333.10973977.00497Ress Davidauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut942295MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910484848903321The Half Breed Tracts in Early National America2848801UNINA