LEADER 04636nam 22006015 450 001 9910586000203321 005 20230814230143.0 010 $a1-5128-2353-8 010 $a0-8122-9564-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812295641 035 $a(CKB)4100000007163917 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5612787 035 $a(OCoLC)1079008511 035 $a(DE-B1597)514586 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812295641 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007163917 100 $a20190123d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPrairie Imperialists $eThe Indian Country Origins of American Empire /$fKatharine Bjork 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2018] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (349 pages) 225 0 $aAmerica in the Nineteenth Century 311 $a0-8122-5100-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Gray Wolves for Guánica --$tPart I. Indian Country --$tChapter 1. Coming to Indian Country --$tChapter 2. Scouting --$tChapter 3. The Right Kind of White Men --$tChapter 4. Prairie Imperialists --$tPart II. Indian Country Abroad --$tChapter 5. Spoil of the Spaniard --$tChapter 6. The Buckskin Mantle --$tChapter 7. Sultan of Sulu --$tPart III. The Last Indian War --$tChapter 8. Spy Mission to Mexico: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lee Bullard, 1911 --$tChapter 9. Washington and the Border: Brigadier General Hugh Lenox Scott, 1911-1916 --$tChapter 10. The Punitive Expedition: Brigadier General John J. Pershing, 1916 --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines, Cuba, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty abroad, argues Katharine Bjork, had a precedent in earlier relations with Native nations at home. In Prairie Imperialists, Bjork traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army's conquests of what its soldiers called "Indian Country" generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America's new island territories following the War of 1898.Prairie Imperialists follows the colonial careers of three Army officers from the domestic frontier to overseas posts in Cuba and the Philippines. The men profiled-Hugh Lenox Scott, Robert Lee Bullard, and John J. Pershing-internalized ways of behaving in Indian Country that shaped their approach to later colonial appointments abroad. Scott's ethnographic knowledge and experience with Native Americans were valorized as an asset for colonial service; Bullard and Pershing, who had commanded African American troops, were regarded as particularly suited for roles in the pacification and administration of colonial peoples overseas. After returning to the mainland, these three men played prominent roles in the "Punitive Expedition" President Woodrow Wilson sent across the southern border in 1916, during which Mexico figured as the next iteration of "Indian Country."With rich biographical detail and ambitious historical scope, Prairie Imperialists makes fundamental connections between American colonialism and the racial dimensions of domestic political and social life-during peacetime and while at war. Ultimately, Bjork contends, the concept of "Indian Country" has served as the guiding force of American imperial expansion and nation building for the past two and a half centuries and endures to this day. 410 0$aAmerica in the nineteenth century. 606 $aIndians of North America$xWars$y1866-1895 606 $aIndians, Treatment of$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aImperialism 607 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1865-1921 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aCaribbean Studies. 610 $aLatin American Studies. 610 $aNative American Studies. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xWars 615 0$aIndians, Treatment of$xHistory 615 0$aImperialism. 676 $a973.2 700 $aBjork$b Katharine$01252637 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910586000203321 996 $aPrairie Imperialists$92904173 997 $aUNINA