Author: Christopher D. Haveman
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496219546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks, while at the same time demanding their emigration to Indian territory, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness. Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the arrival of detachment six in the West in late 1837, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were moved—voluntarily or involuntarily—to Indian territory. Rivers of Sand fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing the full breadth and depth of the Creeks’ collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first years of resettlement. Unlike the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which was conducted largely at the end of a bayonet, most Creeks were relocated through a combination of coercion and negotiation. Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel were forced to make concessions in order to gain the compliance of the headmen and their people. Christopher D. Haveman’s meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents to weave narratives of resistance and survival, making Rivers of Sand an essential addition to the ethnohistory of American Indian removal.
Rivers of Sand
Author: Christopher D. Haveman
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496219546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks, while at the same time demanding their emigration to Indian territory, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness. Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the arrival of detachment six in the West in late 1837, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were moved—voluntarily or involuntarily—to Indian territory. Rivers of Sand fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing the full breadth and depth of the Creeks’ collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first years of resettlement. Unlike the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which was conducted largely at the end of a bayonet, most Creeks were relocated through a combination of coercion and negotiation. Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel were forced to make concessions in order to gain the compliance of the headmen and their people. Christopher D. Haveman’s meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents to weave narratives of resistance and survival, making Rivers of Sand an essential addition to the ethnohistory of American Indian removal.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496219546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks, while at the same time demanding their emigration to Indian territory, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness. Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the arrival of detachment six in the West in late 1837, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were moved—voluntarily or involuntarily—to Indian territory. Rivers of Sand fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing the full breadth and depth of the Creeks’ collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first years of resettlement. Unlike the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which was conducted largely at the end of a bayonet, most Creeks were relocated through a combination of coercion and negotiation. Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel were forced to make concessions in order to gain the compliance of the headmen and their people. Christopher D. Haveman’s meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents to weave narratives of resistance and survival, making Rivers of Sand an essential addition to the ethnohistory of American Indian removal.
Treaty with the Creek Indians
Author: Creek Nation
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Treaty with Creek Indians, &c
Author: Creek Nation
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Treaty Between the United States of America and the Creek Tribe of Indians
Author: United States
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Treaty Concluded Between the United States of America and the Creek Nation of Indians
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Report of the Select Committee Appointed on the 17th Ultimo, to Consider of Certain Treaties with the Creek and Cherokee Indians, and the Articles of Agreement and Cession Entered Into on the 24th April, 1802, Between the United States and the State of Georgia
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Consider Certain Treaties with the Creek and Cherokee Indians
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Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Treaty Between the United States and the Cow Creek Indians
Author: Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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McIntosh Letters
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Treaties Between the United States of America and the Several Indian Tribes, from 1778 to 1837
Author: United States
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Martin Van Buren, President of the United States of America, to All and Singular to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting
Author: Creek Nation
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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