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Sto caricando le informazioni... Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (1932)di Grant Foreman
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.   Mapguy314 | Feb 20, 2022 |   ) sydsavvy | Apr 8, 2016 | In 1932, the country was not in the mood to look at the Trail of Tears with clear eyes focused on the hard and brutal realities of it. "Happy Days" were about to be here again, and so the textbook of the Trail of Tears could be factually correct, as this one is, yet lacking the passion and honesty of later works like "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" and Gloria Jahoda's superb "Trail of Tears". The language of this work, too, is a little hard to follow from today's attention-deficit perspective. The footnotes are too long, and there are too many important but uninteresting details like numbers of people moved, quality and quanitities of supplies, etc. There are constant lists of such aspects of the story, repeated throughout the text. I am a family genealogist searching for answers to the question: "Who is my great-great Grandmother Mattie Clemons?" Can she be found? Was she a Native American, as we have been told? Was she Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, or Creek? And so, for this purpose, I found the book illuminating. I may have made marginal gains in my search for my ancestor. But the few morsels that provided understanding of the Trail of Tears policy itself, made it valuable to me. But, it was valuable only in the sense that Alex Haley had to sit through hours of story-telling, before finding Kunta Kinte. You have to have a purpose in reading this, and you have to know what you want out of it, before commencing. Not a good casual read. But for people that hunger for more information on the Trail of Tears, I do recommend it. (  ) HVFCentral | Mar 3, 2009 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"This book is the account of the removal of the southern Indians. In the North weaker and more primitive tribes yielded with comparatively small resistance to the power and chicane of the white man. A different situation in the southern states called into requisition different methods and resulted in a more complicated story. At least four of the tribes of southern Indians had so far advanced in learning and culture as to establish themselves permanently on the soil, build homes and farms, cultivate the land, raise herds and varied crops, including cotton which they carded, spun, and wove into cloth with which they clothed themselves. They laid out roads, built mills, engaged in commerce, and sent their children to schools conducted by the missionaries ... Naturally, a people of such achievements, aware of their rights under prior possession and treaty guarantees with the national government, stubbornly resisted the aggressions of the whites. The forcible uprooting and expulsion of sixty thousand such people over a period of more than a decade, developed a story without parallel in the history of this country and resulted in a vast accumulation of manuscript material from which this account is mainly written"--Preface. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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