The Trail of Tears

The American Indian Removals, 1813-55
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-40488-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

In 1830 the United States Congress passed a bill turning into law what had been until then unofficial policy: the forcible removal of those Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi and their resettlement in the West. The Removals were to prove merely the first step in the deliberate destruction of an entire people.

Originally published in 1976, and making use of hitherto unpublished Indian sources, Gloria Jahoda’s book relates the history of Indian courage in the face of implacable white expansionism during the first half of the nineteenth century and shows how this expansionism led inexorably to the final massacre at Wounded Knee. The historical indictment is all the more telling and moving for the author’s scrupulous research and scholarship and her eloquent writing.

Zielgruppe

General, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jahoda, Gloria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Holy Ground 1. Tahlonteskee Goes West and Quitewepea Brings an Invitation 2. Jacksa Chula Harjo Makes a Law 3. ‘Drunk, Sober, or Sick, We Will Move Them Along 4. ‘Under the Pressure of Hunger’ 5. The Lost Prince 6. Ma-Kka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak Goes to War 7. A Gathering of Vultures 8. The Road to Clear Boggy 9. The Life and Dath of Ma-to-toh-pe 10. Apostle to the People of Fire 11. White Bird’s Last Stand 12. Asi-Yaholo Makes a Promise 13. Pascofa Takes the Cup 14. Prayers for the White Chief 15. The Munificent Mr. Manypenny 16. Sir St. George Gore Goes Hunting. Appendix: Selected Government Documents on Indian Removal.

Über Autor(innen)

Gloria Jahoda (1926–1980) was much less concerned with the politics or circumstances of a particular time and place than she was of the people who inhabited the time and place. Her books all focus on human character, endurance, success and failure, without which physical surroundings are ultimately sterile. As a result much of her writing is timeless.