Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (Ostler Jeffrey)(Paperback)

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion "An elegant, organized narrative of the United States' dispossession of Native lands east of the Mississippi. . . . A remarkable book in its breadth and scope."--Ashley Riley Sousa, Canadian Journal of History "Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. . . . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship and teaching cannot retreat."--Peter Nabokov, New York Review of Books In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless
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