Indians in the Family : : Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion / / Dawn Peterson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017
• VerfasserIn: Peterson, Dawn,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 3 halftones, 4 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Adopting Indians into the Early U.S. Republic --; 2. American Indians and the Post- Revolutionary Era --; 3. Domestic Fronts on the Eve of 1812 --; 4. A Choctaw Mother in Slave Country --; 5. Adoption in Andrew Jackson's Empire --; 6. Defending "Civilization" --; 7. Adoption and Diplomacy --; 8. Choctaw Schooling --; 9. Adoption and the Politics of Indian Removal --; Epilogue --; Appendix --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674978720; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110547764; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674978720
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dawn Peterson.

Through stories of a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents in early America, Dawn Peterson shows the role adoption and assimilation played in efforts to subdue Native peoples. As adults, adoptees used their education to thwart U.S. claims to their homelands, setting the stage for the Indian Removal Act of 1830.