Unworthy Republic : : the Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

Locations
Call Number: 970.004 Sa, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / Native Americans / Saunt, Claudio
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	970.004 Sa	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / Native Americans / Saunt, Claudio	4-week checkout	Due 05-08-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / Native Americans / Saunt, Claudio	4-week checkout	Due 05-04-2024

Introduction: "Words are delusive" -- White supremacy and Indian territory. Aboriginia ; The White people of Georgia -- The view from Washington City. The debate ; "Forked tongue and shallow hart" -- The best laid plans. The plan of operations ; The cholera times -- Financing dispossession. The financiers ; "A combination of designing speculators" -- From expulsion to extermination. 1836: the southern world at war ; At the point of a bayonet ; 'Tis no sin -- Afterword: The price of expulsion.
"A masterful and unsettling history of the forced migration of 80,000 Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s. On May 28, 1830, Congress authorized the expulsion of indigenous peoples from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Over the next decade, Native Americans saw their homelands and possessions stolen through fraud, intimidation, and murder. Thousands lost their lives. In this powerful, gripping book, Claudio Saunt upends the common view that "Indian Removal" was an inevitable chapter in US expansion across the continent. Instead, Saunt argues that it was a contested political act-resisted by both indigenous peoples and US citizens-that passed in Congress by a razor-thin margin. In telling the full story of this systematic, state-sponsored theft, Saunt reveals how expulsion became national policy, abetted by southern slave owners and financed by Wall Street. Moving beyond the familiar story of the Trail of Tears, Unworthy Republic offers a fast-paced yet deeply researched account of unbridled greed, government indifference, and administrative incompetence. The consequences of this vast transfer of land and wealth still resonate today"-- Provided by publisher.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review
CHOICE Review
Publishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Fiction Profile
Author Notes

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Detailed History of Deportation of Native Tribes submitted by apf1950 on January 13, 2021, 12:34pm It can be easy to get lost in all of the detail in this book. Still, it describes the efforts of whites to expel Natives from their historic homelands. This was done during the 1830s and 1840s through theft, treaty violations, corruption by agents hired by the federal government, long steamboat trips and forced marches, actions of state legislatures and militias in the South, and sheer violence.

These actions were aided and abetted by President Andrew Jackson. His secretary of war for five years was Lewis Cass, a prominent Michigan politician whose name adorns street signs and buildings in the state.