The Half Breed Tracts in Early National America Changing Concepts of Land and Place /

• Main Author: Ress, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: United States-History.; Imperialism.; Law-History.; US History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Legal History.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.