Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South

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ISBN: 9780803273924
Dewey: 323.1197385
LCC Number: E99.C9
Author: Christopher Haveman
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Pages: 438
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Description

At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks in removing the squatters, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness. Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the forced migrations beginning in 1836, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were relocated voluntarily or involuntarily to Indian Territory. “Rivers of Sand” fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing, for the first time, the full breadth and depth of the Creeks collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first years of resettlement.

Unlike the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which was conducted largely at the end of a bayonet, most Creeks were removed through a combination of coercion and negotiation. Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel were forced to make concessions in order to gain the compliance of the headmen and their people. Christopher D. Haveman s meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents to weave narratives of resistance and survival, making “Rivers of Sand” an essential addition to the ethnohistory of American Indian removal.”

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Weight 0.6 lbs
Dimensions 8 × 9.4 × 0.4 in
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