LEADER 03305nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910463068703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-87013-883-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000386353 035 $a(EBL)1742438 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001034972 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11577637 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001034972 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11028921 035 $a(PQKB)10357937 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338325 035 $a(OCoLC)606889965 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29188 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338325 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10721342 035 $a(OCoLC)884016163 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000386353 100 $a20040109d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiving in the land of death$b[electronic resource] $ethe Choctaw nation, 1830-1860 /$fDonna L. Akers 210 $aEast Lansing $cMichigan State University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aNative American series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87013-684-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 173-195) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aWith the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Territory, or, as they knew it, the Land of the Dead (the route taken by the souls of Choctaw people after death on their way to the Choctaw afterlife). Their first few years in the new nation affirmed their name for the land, as hundreds more died from whooping cough, floods, starvation 410 0$aNative American series (East Lansing, Mich.) 606 $aChoctaw Indians$xRelocation 606 $aChoctaw Indians$xSocial conditions 606 $aIndians, Treatment of$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aIndians of North America$xGovernment relations$y1789-1869 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$yTo 1865 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChoctaw Indians$xRelocation. 615 0$aChoctaw Indians$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aIndians, Treatment of$xHistory 615 0$aIndians of North America$xGovernment relations 676 $a976.004/97387 700 $aAkers$b Donna$0983090 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463068703321 996 $aLiving in the land of death$92243845 997 $aUNINA