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Living in the land of death [[electronic resource] ] : the Choctaw nation, 1830-1860 / / Donna L. Akers



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Autore: Akers Donna Visualizza persona
Titolo: Living in the land of death [[electronic resource] ] : the Choctaw nation, 1830-1860 / / Donna L. Akers Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 976.004/97387
Soggetto topico: Choctaw Indians - Relocation
Choctaw Indians - Social conditions
Indians, Treatment of - Southern States - History - 19th century
Indians of North America - Government relations - 1789-1869
Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
United States Politics and government 19th century
United States Social conditions To 1865
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-195) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: With 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
Titolo autorizzato: Living in the land of death  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-87013-883-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786842403321
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Serie: Native American series (East Lansing, Mich.)