Anderson, Gary Clayton, 1948-
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2014.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-433) and index.
• Introduction: definitions of genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes in modern world history — The native new world — European penetration of the new world — Interregnum: natives and a reformed colonial land policy — A new king of ethnic cleanings: the frontier rangers and the assault on Native America — The American invasion — The Jeffersonians and the removal game — The great land grab — Unscabbarding the bayonet: Andrew Jackson and the policy of forced ethnic cleansing — The western domain: Indian country — The stealing of a golden land: ethnic cleansing in California — The diminishment of the Native domain: Oregon and Washington — The Great Plains: war crimes, reservations, peace commissions, and reformers — The peace policy : benevolent ethnic cleansing — The Red River wars : the collapse of the peace policy — General Sheridan and the ethnic cleansing of the northern Lakota Sioux — The Indians’ last stand against ethnic cleansing — Epilogue: allotment and the final ethnic cleansing of America.

Subjects:

• Indians of North America — Crimes against.
• Indians, Treatment of — North America — History.
• Genocide — United States — History.
• Forced migration — United States — History.
• United States — Ethnic relations.
• United States — Politics and government.

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