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MakeeLearn -> RE: What Book Are You Reading at the moment? (10/17/2016 2:09:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
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ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn
Indian Removal by Grant Foreman 1932
Well footnoted, lots of first person accounts. Few people know the complete story. The Cherokees deserved their Trail of Tears
I know that this is a very sensitive subject. Pointing out that Indian tribes warred amongst themselves for hundreds of years and deliberately kicked one another off of prime hunting / fishing / farming ground or is fraught with political peril these days. Does the author go into internecine Indian warfare as well as that involving 'white' settlers?
The more sensitive the better... reason to look closer
He just covers the time from the end of 1812 war up to the last removals. By then it was White, Indian, Black vs. Indian,White Black. The Cherokee helped defeat the other tribes during 1812/Creek Wars and Indian Removal started slowly then peaking went into the 1830s. Tribes of Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks suffering first.
It shows how Whites, Indians and Blacks were already living side by side, then after 1812 War and Creek Wars the wild unstable times resulting from White immigrants flooding west(Alabama,Mississippi,Tennessee) - land hungry and conflicting with both Indians and white indigenous peoples.
Every white person that could get ANY Indian to mark a piece of paper was laying claim to land. Barrels of whiskey where left near tribal settlements to keeep them constantly drunk.
Some tribes went out west with ease and style. In some tribes the "Chiefs" took the money and went east to a big city while the rest of the tribe went out west in squalor. There was no monolith of happenings. The Creek Chief Red Eagle was full blooded white.
As one person noted : The Creek tribes that are being rounded up contain people of every shade of red, every shade of white, every shade of black.
Another:
I was a Confederate officer and fought the entire Civil War and I never saw human misery like I saw during the Creek removal.
Many of the Indian peace treaty signers were killed by their people once out west.
There is alot of unknown history from this era. A very detailed book, where the author presents tons of data, the majority of it first person, without spin.
Having a Creek ancestor that was married to a white ,and living white, she stayed. Ive studied the history beyond the general knowledge. Its become a cliche for a white to say "I have Indian blood" yet if you have white ancestors that were among the first settlers there's a reason to say it.
I believe most of the whites knew there is no difference in peoples so "Its better then that its us with the control"
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