How the Indians Lost Their Land : : Law and Power on the Frontier / / Stuart Banner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Banner, Stuart,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Native Proprietors --; 2. Manhattan for Twenty-four Dollars --; 3. From Contract to Treaty --; 4. A Revolution in Land Policy --; 5. From Ownership to Occupancy --; 6. Removal --; 7. Reservations --; 8. Allotment --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674020535; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674020535
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stuart Banner.

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. How did Indians actually lose their land? Stuart Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.