The Slaveholding Indians (Vol.1-3)

Zusatztext

The Slaveholding Indians is a three volume series dealing with the slaveholding Indians as secessionists, as participants in the Civil War, and as victims under reconstruction. The series deals with a phase of American Civil War history which has heretofore been almost entirely neglected or, where dealt with, either misunderstood or misinterpreted.
 Contents
 The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist
 General Situation in the Indian Country, 1830-1860
 Indian Territory in Its Relations With Texas and Arkansas
 The Confederacy in Negotiation With the Indian Tribes
 The Indian Nations in Alliance With the Confederacy
 The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War
 The Battle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn and Its More Immediate Effects
 Lane's Brigade and the Inception of the Indian
 The Indian Refugees in Southern Kansas
 The Organization of the First Indian Expedition
 The March to Tahlequah and the Retrograde Movement of the "White Auxiliary"
 General Pike in Controversy With General Hindman
 Organization of the Arkansas and Red River Superintendency
 The Retirement of General Pike
 The Removal of the Refugees to the Sac and Fox Agency
 Negotiations With Union Indians
 Indian Territory in 1863, January to June Inclusive
 Indian Territory in 1863, July to December Inclusive
 Aspects, Chiefly Military, 1864-1865
 The American Indian Under Reconstruction
 Overtures of Peace and Reconciliation
 The Return of the Refugees
 Cattledriving in the Indian Country 
 The Muster Out of the Indian Home Guards 
 The Surrender of the Secessionist Indians 
 The Peace Council at Fort Smith, September, 1865
 The Harlan Bill
 The Freedmen of Indian Territory 
 The Earlier of the Reconstruction Treaties of 1866
 Negotiations With the Cherokees

Autorenportrait

Annie Heloise Abel (1873 ¿ 1947) was among the earliest professional historians to study Native Americans. She was one of the first thirty women in the United States to earn a PhD in history. One of the ablest historians of her day, Abel was an expert on the history of British and American Indian policies.

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