American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era

by Satz, Ronald N.

• ISBN13: 9780806134321
• ISBN10: 0806134321
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

The Jacksonian period has long been recognized as a watershed era in American Indian policy. Ronald N. Satz's American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era uses the perspectives of both ethnohistory and public administration to analyze the formulation, execution, and results of government policies of the 1830s and 1840s. In doing so, he examines the differences between the rhetoric and the realities of those policies and furnishes a much-needed corrective to many simplistic stereo-types about Jacksonian Indian policy.

Author Biography

Ronald N. Satz is Provost, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, and Professor of American Indian History at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface to the Red River Books Edition	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
Old Hickory Takes Command	9	(30)
The Political Response to the Removal Act	39	(25)
The Test Case of the Removal Policy	64	(33)
Indian Removal	97	(29)
The Promise of Indian Self-Rule in the West	126	(25)
The Office of Indian Affairs	151	(27)
The Indian Field Service	178	(33)
Protecting the Frontiers	211	(35)
Civilizing the Indians	246	(46)
Epilogue	292	(4)
Appendix	296	(3)
Selected Bibliography	299	(22)
Index	321