How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier

How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier
ISBN-10
0674020537
ISBN-13
9780674020535
Category
History
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2009-06-30
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Stuart Banner

Description

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from American Indians to whites. How did Indians actually lose their land? Stuart Banner argues that neither simple coercion nor simple consent reflects the complicated legal history of land transfers. Instead, time, place, and the balance of power between Indians and settlers decided the outcome of land struggles.

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