LEADER 03602nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910778095703321 005 20230721021750.0 010 $a9786612351716 010 $a0-300-14250-1 010 $a1-282-35171-0 010 $a1-282-08934-X 010 $a9786612089343 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300142501 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764815 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049926 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000241404 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219331 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000241404 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10297294 035 $a(PQKB)10989540 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420607 035 $a(DE-B1597)485471 035 $a(OCoLC)815775455 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300142501 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420607 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348504 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208934 035 $a(OCoLC)923594995 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764815 100 $a20081029d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSavages and scoundrels$b[electronic resource] $ethe untold story of America's road to empire through Indian Territory /$fPaul VanDevelder 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-12563-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tcontents --$tINTRODUCTION --$tONE: REDEEMING EDEN --$tTWO: SAVAGES AND SCOUNDRELS --$tTHREE: WHITE MEN IN PARADISE --$tFOUR: PIONEERS OF THE WORLD --$tFIVE: THE GREAT SMOKE --$tSIX: MONSTERS OF GOD --$tAPPENDIX: TREATY OF FORT LARAMIE (HORSE CREEK), 1851 --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINDEX 330 $aWhat really happened in the early days of our nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This gripping book tells America's story from a new perspective, chronicling the adventures of our forefathers and showing how a legacy of repeated betrayals became the bedrock on which the republic was built. Paul VanDevelder takes as his focal point the epic federal treaty ratified in 1851 at Horse Creek, formally recognizing perpetual ownership by a dozen Native American tribes of 1.1 million square miles of the American West. The astonishing and shameful story of this broken treaty-one of 371 Indian treaties signed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-reveals a pattern of fraudulent government behavior that again and again displaced Native Americans from their lands. VanDevelder describes the path that led to the genocide of the American Indian; those who participated in it, from cowboys and common folk to aristocrats and presidents; and how the history of the immoral treatment of Indians through the twentieth century has profound social, economic, and political implications for America even today. 606 $aIndians of North America$xGovernment relations 606 $aIndians of North America$xLand tenure 607 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion$xHistory 615 0$aIndians of North America$xGovernment relations. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xLand tenure. 676 $a323.1197 700 $aVanDevelder$b Paul$01576404 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778095703321 996 $aSavages and scoundrels$93854178 997 $aUNINA