Forced Removal of American Indians from the Northeast A History of Territorial Cessions and Relocations, 1620-1854
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Biografisk notat
David W. Miller is a retired naval officer, Department of Justice attorney and federal administrative law judge. The author of three other books, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.“Miller...offers a detailed narrative with quotes from primary sources woven throughout, focusing on the actual words and actions of individuals, communities, and organizations as revealed by letters and journals, goverment documents, and other archival sources”—<i>Reference & Research Book News</i>.
Between the settlement of the Pilgrims in New England in 1620 and the 1850s, native Indians were forced to move west of the Mississippi River. In the process they surrendered, mainly reluctantly, their claims to 412,000 square miles of land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River and the Mason-Dixon Line. Relying on the words of those involved and pertinent documents, this study gives insight into the thoughts and attitudes of those demanding the movement and the efforts of the Indians to remain. The changes in governmental policies that came about as a result of the Revolutionary War are noted as is the incremental weakening of the Indians as the avalanche of settlers moved west. Attention is given to the policies of George Washington and his secretary of war, Henry Knox, in the early years of the United States.
Preface
1. Kingdom of Saguenay (1497–1543)
2. Iroquois Conquests (1580–1653)
3. Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay
4. Destruction of the Pequot
5. Next Were the Narragansetts
6. King Philip’s War
7. The Fur Trade and Struggles Between the French, English, and Indians (1641–1753)
8. Pennsylvania (1681–1754)
9. Iroquois Route to the South
10. Who Owns Land in the Ohio River Watershed
11. French and Indian War (1755–1763)
12. War’s Aftermath in the North (Pontiac’s War 1763–1764)
13. Proclamation of 1763, Lawlessness, and the British 1764 Offensives
14. Frontiersmen Out of Control and the 1768 Treaty at Fort Stanwix
15. Land Schemes
16. Dunmore’s War
17. Early Kentucky Settlements
18. A New Force Emerges
19. The Northern Frontier During the War Years
20. Indians Betrayed
21. Kentucke (1782–1792)
22. Defining Indian Boundaries in the Six Nations and North of the Ohio
23. Chaos in the Northwest
24. The Ohio Company
25. Negotiating for an Indian Boundary for the Northern Tribes
26. Washington’s First Offensive in the West Flounders (1790)
27. Another Failure (1791)
28. Mad Anthony Prepares (1792–1793)
29. Mad Anthony Prevails—Treaty of Greenville (1794–1795)
30. Taking Over the Northwest Territory (1801–1819)
31. More Indiana Land Ceded and the War of 1812
32. Mopping Up in the Lower Northwest Territory (1817–1847)
33. Lead Mines and the Black Hawk War
34. Michigan and Wisconsin Through the Years 1807–1854
Notes
Bibliography
Index