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Narrating Black Hawk: Indian Wars, Memory, and Midwestern Identity
… over time and argues also that the ""imagined Indians"" who emerge from this process become readily enmeshed in notions of regional identity. Using the example of Black Hawk, a nineteenth-century Sauk leader, I illustrate how Native people are especially prone to both conscious and unconscious …
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The French and Indian Wars: New France's Situational Indian Policies During the Fox and Natchez Conflicts, 1701-1732
… relationship between New France and the American Indians with which that empire came into contact in North America, focusing primarily on the conflicting policies seen during the Fox Wars and the Natchez Wars. Many recent histories of New France, including Richard White's seminal study The Middle …
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FIGHTING A "CRUEL AND SAVAGE FOE": COUNTERINSURGENCY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES FROM THE INDIAN WARS TO THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR (1899-1902)
Many scholars have written about the counterinsurgency phase of the Philippine- American War (1899-1902). Military historians often downplayed the impact of human rights abuses, while emphasizing the success of the U.S. Army’s counterinsurgency instead. In contrast, social historians frequently …
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MANIFEST DESTINY IN CHINA: A COMPARISON OF THE UNITED STATES AMERICAN INDIAN WARS OF THE 1800S WITH CHINA’S STRIKE HARD CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE UYGHUR MUSLIMS OF XINJIANG PROVINCE
… and contrasting two case studies: the American Indian Wars and the present-day plight of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China. It should be noted that this thesis does not purport to illustrate a vast range of similarities between the two. Rather, very few resemblances actually exist. Among them, …
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KIT CARSON'S LAST FIGHT: THE ADOBE WALLS CAMPAIGN OF 1864
… punitive campaign against the Kiowa and Comanche Indians of the high plains. The resulting battle was one of the largest in the history of North American Indian Wars. Yet this conflict has been relegated to historical obscurity. In this paper, I examine why Kit Carson's 1864 Adobe Walls Campaign …
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Savage reds: US settler colonialism, anarchist scares, and anticommunism, 1840s-1920s
… and anticommunism. ""The only good Indian is a dead Indian"" went General Sheridan's genocidal axiom. By the 1880s, US politicians, industrialists, and their media organs were using the words ""Indian"" and ""anarchist"" in the heinous phrase interchangeably. This application of the …
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William Henry Harrison's Indiana: Paternalism and Patriotism on the Frontier, 1795--1812
… Independence had blamed George III for slavery, Indian wars, and political corruption, and the next generation of Americans continued to do so. While previous authors have correctly attributed much of this attitude to President Thomas Jefferson and other national leaders, key figures on the …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
As a result of the Indian slave trade in the American Southwest, a group of detribalized Indians emerged in New Mexico during the Spanish colonial period. These Indians came to be known as the genízaros and, through the process scholars call ethnogenesis, developed their own identity by …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
As a result of the Indian slave trade in the American Southwest, a group of detribalized Indians emerged in New Mexico during the Spanish colonial period. These Indians came to be known as the genízaros and, through the process scholars call ethnogenesis, developed their own identity by …
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A spatiotemporal analysis of Army base distributions in the contiguous United States from 1800 to 1900
… concepts in US history: westward expansion, Indian Wars, and international conflict. Using the stated metrics for understanding the establishment trajectories over time, one can identify some concrete geographical relationships between not only Army bases and personnel, but also the US …
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History and Archaeology of the Rosebud Battlefield June 17, 1876
… Montana, offered an opportunity to research an Indian Wars era battlefield that has not been the subject of systematic archaeological investigations. The Rosebud has been largely overlooked in the historical record due to the events that happened along the Little Bighorn River eight days later. …
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A spatiotemporal analysis of Army base distributions in the contiguous United States from 1800 to 1900
… concepts in US history: westward expansion, Indian Wars, and international conflict. Using the stated metrics for understanding the establishment trajectories over time, one can identify some concrete geographical relationships between not only Army bases and personnel, but also the US …
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History and Archaeology of the Rosebud Battlefield June 17, 1876
… Montana, offered an opportunity to research an Indian Wars era battlefield that has not been the subject of systematic archaeological investigations. The Rosebud has been largely overlooked in the historical record due to the events that happened along the Little Bighorn River eight days later. …
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“The Amazing Iroquois”: Haudenosaunee History in Myth and Memory, 1776–1955
… of the Iroquois as the “most studied” Indian nation and that they, as the debunked Iroquois Influence Thesis claimed, influenced the structure and scope of the U.S. Constitution. My study examines the lives of four related (by blood and by claim) Seneca leaders: Red Jacket, Ely S. …
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From The Field: Nature And Work On American Frontiers, 1876-1909
… on the experiences of American soldiers in the Indian Wars and the Philippine-American War. With their writing and many other kinds of work, soldiers remade multiple frontiers. I use soldiers' diaries, reports, field books, and letters to argue for the centrality of ideas about nature to the …
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Use of Federal Troops in Civil Disturbances 1892-1968
… term civil disturbance is defined as excluding Indian wars, western frontier violence and all incidents prior to the passage of the Posse Comitatus Act in 1878, which forbade the use of federal troops as routine civil law enforcers. The incidents range from the Coeur 'd'Alene Idaho incident to …
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Redrawing the Frontier: A Cultural History of American and Franco-Belgian Western Comics
… upon a number of key historical timeframes, from Indian Wars reportage in nineteenth- century magazine cartoons; cowboy adventure comics and the Cold War; to the acerbic and brutal revisions of the genre in the wake of the Vietnam War; revealing how the ostensibly simplistic moral conflicts common …
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GOOD WIVES: A STUDY IN ROLE DEFINITION IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND, 1650-1750
… of Metacom's Rebellion and in the French and Indian wars of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. When the fighting viragoes, godly captives, and saintly wives of the literature are placed in a larger context, they point toward limited tolerance for female aggression in northern …
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The Sand Creek Massacre and the History of Greater Reconstruction in the American West
… this massacre in terms of other Civil War-era Indian “wars,” I will be able to examine the federal government’s decision to investigate the attack on the Native people, which was not only a common occurrence but widely supported among military personnel. I will significantly rely on …
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An examination of the attitudes and policies of Andrew Jackson concerning the American Indian
… of Andrew Jackson's attitude toward the American Indian and the effect of these attitudes on the shaping of official United states policy toward the Indians.</p><p>Jackson was born and raised on the frontier. There his prejudices were acquired and his personality was formed. Chapter I deals with …
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