American Burial Ground - A New History of the Overland Trail

"This book reinterprets the historic touchstone of the Overland Trail as a story of death and Native activism. Emigrant graves became seeds of U.S. possession across the West. In response Native peoples defended their homelands by pointing to their graves as proofs of Indigenous persistence and enduring territorial claims"--

About the author

Sarah Keyes is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Keyes
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781512824513
• ISBN: 978-1-5128-2451-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous