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Princeton paperbacks volume 287
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"The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlers. And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests,...
4) Okla Hannali
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Presents a fictionalized account of the history of the Choctaw Indians and their removal from Mississippi to what is now southern Oklahoma, as seen from the perspective of Okla Hannali, a Choctaw giant in the tradition of Paul Bunyan, who had a reputation as a farmer, fiddler, blacksmith, philosopher, and jack of many trades.
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"This series of Choctaw enrollment cards for the Five Civilized Tribes 1898-1914 has been transcribed from National Archive film M-1186 Rolls 39-46 ... When completed, this multi-volume series will contain thousands of names, all of them accounted for in the indexes carefully prepared by the author."--Introduction, volume 1.
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When the U.S. Government broke its treaty with the Five Civilized Tribes, Cherokee Chitto Starr went to war, leading a bloody rebellion for the land. Opposing him is U.S. Marshall Owen McLain, sworn to uphold the law, who must follow his orders, thus involving himself in a fight he doesn't want. Now two men of courage and conscience must ride a savage trail into history.
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"The Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles, were divided over Removal. Adjacent to Kansas, Arkansas, and Texas, the mixed blood English speakers sided with the Confederacy and the full bloods with the Union. Stand Watie led the mixed blood Cherokees. John Ross led the full blood Cherokees. The result was a civil war within the Civil War. Federal Reconstruction treaties forced the Indians to allow railroads and to sell their western...
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"This book is a volume in Native American history, in African American history, and in the long history of the settlement of the U.S. West. The Indian Removal brought eastern Indians to Indian Territory (now modern-day Oklahoma); the eastern Indians appropriated land from the Indians already living there, and they used the language of colonization to do it. In addition, they held slaves"--
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Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson--war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South--whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears. The other is...
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"In the early 1800s, the US government forced Native Americans in the Southeast United States out of their homes and off of land they had occupied for thousands of years. The Trail of Tears takes a look at the shocking and tragic story of how Native Americans were affected by settlement in the United States."--From publisher's website.