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Indians in the Family : Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion / Dawn Peterson.

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Through stories of a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents in early America, Dawn Peterson shows the role adoption and assimilation played in efforts to subdue Native peoples. As adults, adoptees used their education to thwart U.S. claims to their homelands, setting...

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Main Author: Peterson, Dawn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Indians, Treatment of > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Indians of North America > Southern States > Politics and government > 19th century.
Adoption > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Imperialism.
Slaveholders > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1775-1865.
United States > Politics and government.
Adoption.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Indians of North America > Politics and government.
Indians, Treatment of.
Politics and government.
Slaveholders.
Southern States.
United States.
History.

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Call Number: E78.S65 P48 2017
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