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Savages and Scoundrels - The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian Territory (Paperback)
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VanDevelder demolishes long-held myths about America's westward
expansion and uncovers the unacknowledged federal Indian policy
that shaped the republic What really happened in the early days of
our nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across
the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for
themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This gripping book tells
America's story from a new perspective, chronicling the adventures
of our forefathers and showing how a legacy of repeated betrayals
became the bedrock on which the republic was built. Paul
VanDevelder takes as his focal point the epic federal treaty
ratified in 1851 at Horse Creek, formally recognizing perpetual
ownership by a dozen Native American tribes of 1.1 million square
miles of the American West. The astonishing and shameful story of
this broken treaty-one of 371 Indian treaties signed during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-reveals a pattern of fraudulent
government behavior that again and again displaced Native Americans
from their lands. VanDevelder describes the path that led to the
genocide of the American Indian; those who participated in it, from
cowboys and common folk to aristocrats and presidents; and how the
history of the immoral treatment of Indians through the twentieth
century has profound social, economic, and political implications
for America even today.
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