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Jeffrey Ostler is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon and the author of The Lakotas and the Black Hills and The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee.

Comprende il nome: Jeffrey Ostler

Fonte dell'immagine: University of Oregon

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Data di nascita
1955-07-22
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male
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USA

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If you pick this work up prepare yourself for a tough time, as this synthesis seeks to analyze whether Indian Removal east of the Mississippi can be best categorized as an act of government sanctioned genocide, or was "merely" an exercise in ethnic cleansing. For Ostler, the difference relates to intentionality and restraint, and the continuation of removal by U.S. federal authorities, as the casualties mounted, display such a level of indifference as to constitute commission. Perhaps my one issue with this work is that there is some difference in my mind between the final solution of the Jacksonian Period, for which there is no defense, and acts committed prior to 1814, which was a "fair" fight in that both the nascent American settlers and the First Nations had their own traditions of warfare by terror, which should not be glossed over. With that caveat, this book represents a significant advance in our understanding of the course of American empire.… (altro)
 
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Shrike58 | Apr 27, 2021 |
Gives wonderful details about the history of the Lakota people and their struggle to keep the sacred Black Hills.
 
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LeeMartin | 1 altra recensione | Jan 7, 2012 |
"Ostler's powerful history of the Lakotas' struggle captures the heart of a people whose deep relationship with their homeland would compel them to fight for it against overwhelming odds, on battlefields as varied as the Little Bighorn and the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court. "Ostler wonderfully distills the complex history of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty and its traumatic aftermath....This is a wonderful and eminently readable narrative."—Ned Blackhawk, Yale University.
 
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jbrown3 | 1 altra recensione | Apr 27, 2011 |

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