The Half Breed Tracts in Early National America Changing Concepts of Land and Place /
In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers. The treaties that established these so-called Half Breed Tracts left undefined exactly who held claim to the land, a...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,
2019.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. Introduction: A Caught-Between People and an Undefined Land
- 2. Blondeau's Dilemma
- 3. Separation or Separate Property: The Unsettling Prospect of Ownership
- 4. Washington's Dilemma
- 5. The Courthouse Coup in Iowa
- 6. Scrip and the Taking of the Minnesota Half Breed Tract
- 7. Taking the Nebraska Half Breed Tract
- 8. Charley's land
- 9. Conclusion.