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.
The Jacksonian period has long been recognized as a watershed era in American Indian policy. Ronald N. Satz's American Indian Policy in the Jackson...
Hernando De Soto s invasion of Indian lands in 1540 marked the onslaught of great change in the lives of Tennessee s Native Americans. Although these first Tennesseans boasted a cultural heritage of thousands of years, only three centuries of contact with the white man elapsed before their population was decimated and the remnants driven out. The Indians were a settled people when de Soto visited, not the savage or exotic woods creatures so often depicted. Tennessee s Indian Peoples, then, is a story of men and women human beings. Author, Ronald N. Satz tells how the Cherokees, Chickasaws,...
Hernando De Soto s invasion of Indian lands in 1540 marked the onslaught of great change in the lives of Tennessee s Native Americans. Although these ...
