Living in the Land of Death
Subtitle: the Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860
By: Donna Akers.
Series: Native American series; Native American series (East Lansing, Mich.)
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Relations with Choctaw Indians.; United States.; Choctaw Indians -- Relocation.; Choctaw Indians -- Social conditions.; Indians, Treatment of -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.; United States -- Race relations.; United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
Description: "With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Territory, or, as they knew it, the Land of Death (the route taken by the souls of Choctaw people after death on their way to the Choctaw afterlife). Their first few years in the new nation affirmed their name for the land, as hundreds more died from whooping cough, floods, starvation, cholera, and smallpox. Living in the Land of Death depicts the story of Choctaw survival, and the evolution of the Choctaw people in their new environment."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.