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Chargement... Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (original 1932; édition 1974)par Grant Foreman
Information sur l'oeuvreIndian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians par Grant Foreman (1932)
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   Mapguy314 | Feb 20, 2022 |   ) sydsavvy | Apr 8, 2016 | In 1932, the country was not in the mood to look at the Trail of Tears with clear eyes focused on the hard and brutal realities of it. "Happy Days" were about to be here again, and so the textbook of the Trail of Tears could be factually correct, as this one is, yet lacking the passion and honesty of later works like "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" and Gloria Jahoda's superb "Trail of Tears". The language of this work, too, is a little hard to follow from today's attention-deficit perspective. The footnotes are too long, and there are too many important but uninteresting details like numbers of people moved, quality and quanitities of supplies, etc. There are constant lists of such aspects of the story, repeated throughout the text. I am a family genealogist searching for answers to the question: "Who is my great-great Grandmother Mattie Clemons?" Can she be found? Was she a Native American, as we have been told? Was she Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, or Creek? And so, for this purpose, I found the book illuminating. I may have made marginal gains in my search for my ancestor. But the few morsels that provided understanding of the Trail of Tears policy itself, made it valuable to me. But, it was valuable only in the sense that Alex Haley had to sit through hours of story-telling, before finding Kunta Kinte. You have to have a purpose in reading this, and you have to know what you want out of it, before commencing. Not a good casual read. But for people that hunger for more information on the Trail of Tears, I do recommend it. (  ) HVFCentral | Mar 3, 2009 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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It is unlikely that any single book or document will ever earn a more firmly-fixed position of respect and authority than this distinguished volume by Grant Foreman. Originally published in 1932, on the date of the hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Oklahoma of the first Indians as a result of the United States government’s relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Removal remains today the definitive book in its field. The forcible uprooting and expulsion of the 60,000 Indians comprising the Five Civilized Tribes, including the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole, unfolded a story without parallel in the history of the United States. For more than a decade thousands of tragedies and experiences of absorbing interest marked the removal over the "Trail of Tears," but there were no chroniclers at hand to record them. Only occasionally did the tragedy and pathos of some phase of this history-making undertaking beguile a sympathetic officer to turn from routine and write a line or a paragraph of comment. From fragments in thousands of manuscripts and in official and unofficial reports Grant Foreman gleaned the materials for this book to provide readers with an unbiased day-by-day recital of events. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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