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Like its predecessor, the second edition of Philip Weeks's highly popular volume illuminates the problems caused by westward expansion in the nineteenth century, as battle after battle was fought, treaty after treaty was broken. Weeks discusses the three possible resolutions undertaken in varying degrees by the U.S. government -separation, concentration, and Americanization- as he guides the reader through the significant changes in Indian-White relations during this pivotal time.

Informed by the latest scholarship and expanded to consider the entire scope of U.S-Indian relations in the nineteenth century, the second edition of the engaging Farewell, My Nation provides important supplemental reading for the U.S history survey and essential text for courses in American Indian studies.

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• Foreword(p. VII)
• Preface(p. XI)
• Acknowledgments(p. XV)
• Introduction: Dead Dreams(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 The "Indian Question"(p. 13)
• Arrival through the American Revolution(p. 13)
• Breaching the Ohio Country(p. 23)
• Tecumseh, Gradualists, and Removalists(p. 27)
• Toward a Policy of Separation(p. 34)
• Removing the Southern Tribes(p. 40)
• Chapter 2 The Changing West(p. 53)
• Fashioning the Indian Territory(p. 54)
• Dashed Hopes(p. 63)
• A New Solution(p. 72)
• Concentration in the Indian Territory and Texas(p. 79)
• Chapter 3 The Civil War Years(p. 89)
• Civil War in the Indian Territory(p. 91)
• The Santee Sioux Uprising(p. 104)
• Colorado and Sand Creek(p. 112)
• Chapter 4 The Plains Wars, Phase I: Realizing Concentration(p. 123)
• Post-Civil War Indian Policy(p. 124)
• Those Who Resisted Concentration(p. 129)
• Olive Branch and Sword(p. 134)
• The Myth of Peace(p. 147)
• Chapter 5 The Plains Wars, Phase II: Enforcing Concentration(p. 163)
• Grant's "Peace Policy"(p. 163)
• At the Watershed(p. 171)
• The Peace That Slipped Away(p. 180)
• The Last Great Struggle(p. 188)
• "To Conquer a Lasting Peace"(p. 195)
• Chapter 6 The Search for New Order(p. 205)
• Reforms and Jurisdictional Disputes(p. 207)
• Reappraising the Concentration Policy(p. 214)
• Americanization: Something Old and New(p. 225)
• "To Make the World Wiser and Better"(p. 235)
• Aftermath: A Brief Profile of the Twentieth Century(p. 243)
• Bibliographical Essay 251
• Index(p. 258)
• Maps:
• Removal of the Tribes of the South and Old Northwest(p. 43)
• The Plains Indians and Western Trails(p. 73)
• Great Plains, circa 1860-1875(p. 92)
• Northern Great Plains, circa 1875-1890(p. 181)
• Photos follow page(p. 126)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Philip Weeks is a professor of history at the Stark campus of Kent State University, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest honor that can be bestowed on faculty of the campus. He received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. Professor Week's other books include Buckeye Presidents: Ohioans in the White House, Land of Liberty: A United States History and The American Indian Experience: A Profile.