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The Forced Removal of American Indians from the Northeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Relocations, 1620-1854

Between the settlement of the Pilgrims in New England in 1620 and the 1850s, native Indians were forced to move west of the Mississippi River. In the process they surrendered, mainly reluctantly, their claims to 412,000 square miles of land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River and the Mason-Dixon Line. Relying on the words of those involved and pertinent documents, this study gives insight into the thoughts and attitudes of those demanding the movement and the efforts of the Indians to remain. The changes in governmental policies that came about as a result of the Revolutionary War are noted as is the incremental weakening of the Indians as the avalanche of settlers moved west. Attention is given to the policies of George Washington and his secretary of war, Henry Knox, in the early years of the United States.

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The Forced Removal of American Indians from the Northeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Relocations, 1620-1854

Between the settlement of the Pilgrims in New England in 1620 and the 1850s, native Indians were forced to move west of the Mississippi River. In the process they surrendered, mainly reluctantly, their claims to 412,000 square miles of land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River and the Mason-Dixon Line. Relying on the words of those involved and pertinent documents, this study gives insight into the thoughts and attitudes of those demanding the movement and the efforts of the Indians to remain. The changes in governmental policies that came about as a result of the Revolutionary War are noted as is the incremental weakening of the Indians as the avalanche of settlers moved west. Attention is given to the policies of George Washington and his secretary of war, Henry Knox, in the early years of the United States.

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The Forced Removal of American Indians from the Northeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Relocations, 1620-1854

The Forced Removal of American Indians from the Northeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Relocations, 1620-1854

by David W. Miller
The Forced Removal of American Indians from the Northeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Relocations, 1620-1854

The Forced Removal of American Indians from the Northeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Relocations, 1620-1854

by David W. Miller

Overview

Between the settlement of the Pilgrims in New England in 1620 and the 1850s, native Indians were forced to move west of the Mississippi River. In the process they surrendered, mainly reluctantly, their claims to 412,000 square miles of land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River and the Mason-Dixon Line. Relying on the words of those involved and pertinent documents, this study gives insight into the thoughts and attitudes of those demanding the movement and the efforts of the Indians to remain. The changes in governmental policies that came about as a result of the Revolutionary War are noted as is the incremental weakening of the Indians as the avalanche of settlers moved west. Attention is given to the policies of George Washington and his secretary of war, Henry Knox, in the early years of the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786464968
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 09/29/2011
Pages: 223
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

David W. Miller is a retired naval officer, Department of Justice attorney and federal administrative law judge. The author of three other books, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     

1. Kingdom of Saguenay (1497–1543)     
2. Iroquois Conquests (1580–1653)     
3. Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay     
4. Destruction of the Pequot     
5. Next Were the Narragansetts     
6. King Philip’s War     
7. The Fur Trade and Struggles Between the French, English, and Indians (1641–1753)     
8. Pennsylvania (1681–1754)     
9. Iroquois Route to the South     
10. Who Owns Land in the Ohio River Watershed     
11. French and Indian War (1755–1763)     
12. War’s Aftermath in the North (Pontiac’s War 1763–1764)     
13. Proclamation of 1763, Lawlessness, and the British 1764 Offensives     
14. Frontiersmen Out of Control and the 1768 Treaty at Fort Stanwix     
15. Land Schemes     
16. Dunmore’s War     
17. Early Kentucky Settlements     
18. A New Force Emerges     
19. The Northern Frontier During the War Years     
20. Indians Betrayed     
21. Kentucke (1782–1792)     
22. Defining Indian Boundaries in the Six Nations and North of the Ohio     
23. Chaos in the Northwest     
24. The Ohio Company     
25. Negotiating for an Indian Boundary for the Northern Tribes     
26. Washington’s First Offensive in the West Flounders (1790)     
27. Another Failure (1791)     
28. Mad Anthony Prepares (1792–1793)     
29. Mad Anthony Prevails—Treaty of Greenville (1794–1795)     
30. Taking Over the Northwest Territory (1801–1819)     
31. More Indiana Land Ceded and the War of 1812     
32. Mopping Up in the Lower Northwest Territory (1817–1847)     
33. Lead Mines and the Black Hawk War     
34. Michigan and Wisconsin Through the Years 1807–1854     

Notes     
Bibliography     
Index     
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