Indians in the Family - Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion

Through stories of a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents in early America, Dawn Peterson shows the role adoption and assimilation played in efforts to subdue Native peoples. As adults, adoptees used their education to thwart U.S. claims to their homelands, setting the stage for the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

About the author

Dawn Peterson is an independent scholar and former Assistant Professor of History at Emory University.

Summary

Through stories of a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents in early America, Dawn Peterson shows the role adoption and assimilation played in efforts to subdue Native peoples. As adults, adoptees used their education to thwart U.S. claims to their homelands, setting the stage for the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Product details

• Authors: Dawn Peterson, Dawn Peterson
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780674737556
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73755-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples