Exiles and Pioneers analyzes the removal and post-removal histories of Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians. The book argues that the experience of these eastern Indians from the late 1700s to the 1860s was at its core a struggle over geographic and political place within the expanding United States. Even as American expansion ...
In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized President Andrew Jackson to move eastern Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory. Often solely associated with the Cherokee, the "Trail of Tears" more accurately describes the forced removal of the Five Civilized Tribes, which in addition to the Cherokee ...
The removal of Black Hawk and his band of Sauk and Fox Indians essentially opened much of what was then the Northwest Territory of the United States - Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota - to white settlement. "Black Hawk and the War of 1832" reveals in searing detail how the Black Hawk War culminated in a final ...
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