No Indians: Dispossession of Native Americans

Prof. Claudio Saunt (Norton, Amazon); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory is a masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal.”

That is the forced deportation, relocation, migration, and extermination of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.

In May 1830 the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River.

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In a firestorm of fraud and violence, thousands of Native Americans lost their lives, and thousands more lost their lands, farms, and possessions.

The operation soon devolved into an unofficial policy of extermination, enabled by U.S. officials, southern planters, and northern speculators.

West of the Revolution

Hailed for its searing insight, Unworthy Republic transforms our understanding of this pivotal period in American history.

This book is the winner of the 2021 Bancroft Prize, finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction. It was named a Top Ten Best Book of 2020 by the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2020. It contains 37 illustrations. (WW Norton) More