Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
by Claudio Saunt
Publication Date: Feb 23, 2021
List Price: $16.95
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780393541564
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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. In a firestorm of fraud and violence, thousands of Native Americans lost their lives, and thousands more lost their farms and possessions. The operation soon devolved into an unofficial policy of extermination, enabled by US officials, southern planters, and northern speculators. Hailed for its searing insight, Unworthy Republic transforms our understanding of this pivotal period in American history.