Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory governance edited and with an introduction

edited and with an introduction by leading American Indian education scholar Jon Reyhner

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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory governance edited and with an introductionIn May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington's small but growing bureaucracy. But as the policy unfolded over the next decade, thousands of Native Americans died under the federal government's auspices, and thousands of others lost their