Book Description

The Slaveholding Indians is a three volume series dealing with the slaveholding Indians as secessionists, as participants in the Civil War, and as victims under reconstruction. The series deals with a phase of American Civil War history which has heretofore been almost entirely neglected or, where dealt with, either misunderstood or misinterpreted._x000D_ Contents_x000D_ The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist_x000D_ General Situation in the Indian Country, 1830-1860_x000D_ Indian Territory in Its Relations With Texas and Arkansas_x000D_ The Confederacy in Negotiation With the Indian Tribes_x000D_ The Indian Nations in Alliance With the Confederacy_x000D_ The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War_x000D_ The Battle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn and Its More Immediate Effects_x000D_ Lane's Brigade and the Inception of the Indian_x000D_ The Indian Refugees in Southern Kansas_x000D_ The Organization of the First Indian Expedition_x000D_ The March to Tahlequah and the Retrograde Movement of the "White Auxiliary"_x000D_ General Pike in Controversy With General Hindman_x000D_ Organization of the Arkansas and Red River Superintendency_x000D_ The Retirement of General Pike_x000D_ The Removal of the Refugees to the Sac and Fox Agency_x000D_ Negotiations With Union Indians_x000D_ Indian Territory in 1863, January to June Inclusive_x000D_ Indian Territory in 1863, July to December Inclusive_x000D_ Aspects, Chiefly Military, 1864-1865_x000D_ The American Indian Under Reconstruction_x000D_ Overtures of Peace and Reconciliation_x000D_ The Return of the Refugees_x000D_ Cattle-driving in the Indian Country _x000D_ The Muster Out of the Indian Home Guards _x000D_ The Surrender of the Secessionist Indians _x000D_ The Peace Council at Fort Smith, September, 1865_x000D_ The Harlan Bill_x000D_ The Freedmen of Indian Territory _x000D_ The Earlier of the Reconstruction Treaties of 1866_x000D_ Negotiations With the Cherokees