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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.) :; 3 halftones, 4 maps
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