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

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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