Great crossings : Indians, settlers, and slaves in the age of Jackson /
"The book centers on the community that developed around Choctaw Academy, the first federally-controlled Indian boarding school in the United States, which operated from 1825 to 1848 on the Kentucky plantation of prominent politician Richard Mentor Johnson. In addition to white and Indian teach...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the great path?
- Warriors
- A family at the crossing
- Scholars
- Indian gentlemen and black ladies
- Rise of the leviathan
- The land of death
- Rebirth of the Spartans
- The vice president and the runaway lovers
- Dr. Nail's Rebellion
- The new superintendent
- Orphans among strangers
- Indian schools for Indian territory
- Conclusion: paths to the future.