The American Indian as slaveholder and secessionist /
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TextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1992.Description: 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0803259204
- 9780803259201
- 1861-1865
- Indian slaveholders -- United States
- Indians of North America -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Indians of North America -- Indian Territory -- History
- Indian slaveholders
- Indians of North America
- Military participation -- Indian
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Indian
- Oklahoma -- Indian Territory
- United States
- American Indians Social conditions History
- United States
- 973/.0497 20
- E98.S6 A24 1992
- 15.85
- 6,33
- 7,26
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Loan | Hayden Library Kootenai County Genealogical Society at Hayden | Hayden Library | Book | 970/ABEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not For Loan | 50610024167434 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"[Abel's] story is a tragic one, but leaving it untold would be a greater tragedy. Native American southerners shared the experience of the Civil War with other Americans, and their involvement in that upheaval had as profound an effect on their subsequent history. Abel's was the first serious telling of that story."--Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green.
The secession of southern states in the winter and spring of 1861-62 brought about a crisis for the Five Civilzed Tribes living in present-day Oklahoma, or Indian Territory. Forced out of the South thirty years earlier and relocated there, the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles had maintained a relationship with the United States through treaties and resident agents. Now the civil war that threatened the Union also called into question its relationship with the southern Indians, an influential minority of whom owned black slaves. In this volume, originally published in 1915 as the first of a trilogy on slaveholding Indians, Annie Heloise Abel explores the diplomatic manuevers of the Confederacy to secure alliances with these five Indian nations.
The negotiations were an important chapter in American diplomatic history, as Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, professors of history at Dartmouth College, point out in their introduction to this Bison Book. They profile the English-born, Kansas-educated Annie Heloise Abel (1873-1947), a distinguished historical editor and writer whose works include The American Indian in the Civil War, 1862-1865 , also a Bison Book.
Originally published: Cleveland : A.H. Clark, 1915, in series: The Slaveholding Indians ; v. 1.
"A Bison book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-369) and index.
General Situation in the Indian Country, 1830-1860 -- Indian Territory in its Relations with Texas and Arkansas -- The Confederacy in Negotiation with the Indian Tribes -- The Indian Nations in Alliance with the Confederacy -- Fort Smith Papers -- The Leeper or Wichita Agency Papers.
Author explores the diplomatic maneuvers of the Confederacy to secure alliances with five Indian nations.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction to the Bison Book Edition (p. 1)
- I General Situation in the Indian Country, 1830-1860 (p. 17)
- II Indian Territory in its Relations with Texas and Arkansas (p. 63)
- III The Confederacy in Negotiation with the Indian Tribes (p. 127)
- IV The Indian Nations in Alliance with the Confederacy (p. 207)
- Appendix A Fort Smith Papers (p. 285)
- Appendix B The Leeper or Wichita Agency Papers (p. 329)
- Selected Bibliography (p. 359)
- Index (p. 369)
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