The Piankashaw and Kaskaskia and the Treaty of Greene Ville
Author : David Bond Stout
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Greenville, Treaty of, 1795
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Author : David Bond Stout
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Greenville, Treaty of, 1795
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Author : Robert M. Owens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2011-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0806184388
Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest. Owens traces Harrison’s political career as secretary of the Northwest Territory, territorial delegate to Congress, and governor of Indiana Territory, as well as his military leadership and involvement with Indian relations. Thomas Jefferson, who was president during the first decade of the nineteenth century, found in Harrison the ideal agent to carry out his administration’s ruthless campaign to extinguish Indian land titles. More than a study of the man, Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer is a cultural biography of his fellow settlers, telling how this first generation of post-Revolutionary Americans realized their vision of progress and expansionism. It surveys the military, political, and social world of the early Ohio Valley and shows that Harrison’s attitudes and behavior reflected his Virginia background and its eighteenth-century notions as much as his frontier milieu. To this day, we live with the echoes of Harrison’s proclamations, the boundaries set by his treaties, and the ramifications of his actions. Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer offers a much needed reappraisal of Harrison’s impact on the nation’s development and key lessons for understanding American sentiments in the early republic.
Author : Elizabeth O'Maley
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0871953803
What happened to the Indians of the Old Northwest Territory? Conflicting portraits emerge and answers often depend on who’s telling the story, with each participant bending and stretching the truth to fit their own view of themselves and the world. This volume presents biographical sketches and first-person narratives of Native Americans, Indian traders, Colonial and American leaders, and events that shaped the Indians’ struggle to maintain possession of their tribal lands in the face of the widespread advancement of white settlement. It covers events and people in the Old Northwest Territory from before the American Revolution through the removal of the Miami from Indiana in 1846. As America’s Indian policy was formed, and often enforced by the U.S. military, and white settlers pushed farther west, some Indians fought the white intruders, while others adopted their ways. In the end, most Indians were unable to hold their ground, and the evidence of their presence now lingers only in found relics and strange-sounding place names.
Author : Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2004-05-30
Category : Law
ISBN :
Treaties are so fundamental to the lives of Native Americans and their nations in the United States and Canada that life without them would be difficult to imagine. Most contemporary issues, from land claims to resource ownership to gambling permits, are rooted in laws that derive much of their sustenance from such documents. Treaties are, therefore, vibrant documents that define important issues in our time. This book is an attempt to maintain a national conversation on the treaty basis of important contemporary laws and issues. While the texts of such treaties have long been available, discussion and other annotation in a context that gives them contemporary meaning has been scarce. This collection of essays by experts in Native American history examines these historic agreements in light of recent and ongoing controversies. Claims to ancestral land bases are one prime example: the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794 provides a context in which to address the Onondaga's claim to most of the Syracuse urban area. Treaties provide the bases for events such as the modern-day rebirth of the Ponca Nation in Nebraska more than a century after a bureaucratic error resulted in banishment from ancestral land. One chapter explores why the U.S. Army still officially regards tragic events at Wounded Knee in December 1890 as a battle, rather than a massacre. Another reveals how treaties and laws have been used to retain and regain gas and oil resource ownership. Still another expert examines why so much energy has been expended over the fate of 9,300- year-old bones that have come to be called Kennewick Man.
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Page : 404 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Illinois
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Publisher :
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Academic libraries
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Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 1974
Category : American literature
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Catalogs, Subject
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Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 1974
Category : American literature
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Author : R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher : New York : R.R. Bowker Company
Page : 1462 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Law
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