Living in the Land of Death : the Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860.
With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Terr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | American Indian studies.
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| Summary: | With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Territory, or, as they knew it, the Land of the Dead (the route taken by the souls of Choctaw people after death on their way to the Choctaw afterlife). Their first few years in the new nation affirmed their name for the land, as hundreds more died from whooping cough, floods, starvation, cho. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780870138836 0870138839 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |