Indians in the Family

Indians in the Family
ISBN-10
0674978749
ISBN-13
9780674978744
Category
History
Pages
432
Language
English
Published
2017-06-01
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Dawn Peterson

Description

Through stories of a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents in early America, Dawn Peterson shows the role adoption and assimilation played in efforts to subdue Native peoples. As adults, adoptees used their education to thwart U.S. claims to their homelands, setting the stage for the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

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