Redskins, ruffleshirts and rednecks
Subtitle: Indian allotments in Alabama and Mississippi, 1830-1860.
Series: The Civilization of the American Indian series
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Chickasaw Indians -- Land tenure.; Choctaw Indians -- Land tenure.; Creek Indians -- Land tenure.; Land tenure -- Mississippi.; Land tenure -- Alabama.
Description: President Andrew Jackson wanted to secure all 25 million acres east of the Mississippi River. When the indigenous tribes balked, Jackson offered treaties that promised a farm to each head of an Indian family in exchange for the remaining land. Mary Elizabeth Young details the repercussions of these treaties for American Indians and Anglo-Indian relations. Few if any Indians ever saw that promised farmland, but the United States received its share -- and more.
Notes: Includes bibliography.