Ethnic cleansing and the Indian [electronic resource] : the crime that should haunt America / Gary Clayton Anderson.
Anderson, Gary Clayton, 1948- author.
2014
E98.C87 A63 2014eb
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Title Ethnic cleansing and the Indian [electronic resource] : the crime that should haunt America / Gary Clayton Anderson.
Author Anderson, Gary Clayton, 1948- author.
ISBN 9780806145082 (electronic book)
9780806144214
Published Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 462 pages)
Call Number E98.C87 A63 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 970.004/97
Summary "In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic cleansing as an analytical tool to challenge the alluring idea that Anglo-American colonialism in the New World constituted genocide. Beginning with the era of European conquest, Anderson employs definitions of ethnic cleansing developed by the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to reassess key moments in the Anglo-American dispossession of American Indians. Euro-Americans' extensive use of violence against Native peoples is well documented. Yet Anderson argues that the inevitable goal of colonialism and U.S. Indian policy was not to exterminate a population, but to obtain land and resources from the Native peoples recognized as having legitimate possession. The clashes between Indians, settlers, and colonial and U.S. governments, and subsequent dispossession and forcible migration of Natives, fit the modern definition of ethnic cleansing. To support the case for ethnic cleansing over genocide, Anderson begins with English conquerors' desire to push Native peoples to the margin of settlement, a violent project restrained by the Enlightenment belief that all humans possess a "natural right" to life. Ethnic cleansing comes into greater analytical focus as Anderson engages every major period of British and U.S. Indian policy, especially armed conflict on the American frontier where government soldiers and citizen militias alike committed acts that would be considered war crimes today. Drawing on a lifetime of research and thought about U.S.-Indian relations, Anderson analyzes the Jacksonian "Removal" policy, the gold rush in California, the dispossession of Oregon Natives, boarding schools and other "benevolent" forms of ethnic cleansing, and land allotment. Although not amounting to genocide, ethnic cleansing nevertheless encompassed a host of actions that would be deemed criminal today, all of which had long-lasting consequences for Native peoples." -- Publisher's description.
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Introduction : Definitions of genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes in modern world history
The native New World
European penetration of the New World
Interregnum : Natives and a reformed colonial land policy
A new kind of ethnic cleansing : the frontier "Rangers" and the assault on Native America
The American invasion
The Jeffersonians and the removal game
The great land grab
Unscabbarding the bayonet : Andrew Jackson and the policy of forced ethnic cleansing
The Western domain : Indian Country
The stealing of a golden land : ethnic cleansing in California
The "diminishment" of the native domain : Oregon and Washington
The Great Plains : war crimes, reservations, peace commissions, and reformers
The "peace policy" : benevolent ethnic cleansing
The Red River "wars" : the collapse of the peace policy
General Sheridan and the ethnic cleansing of the Northern Lakota Sioux
The Indians' "last stand" against ethnic cleansing
Epilogue : Allotment and the final ethnic cleansing of America.

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