Reconstructing Indian territory : federal vs. native power and the contested expansion of American sovereignty, 1861 - 1907
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Reconstructing Indian Territory is a history of Indian Territory as a critical site of Reconstruction: the multifaceted federal project to rebuild a unified American nation-state committed to free labor, private property ownership, and a homogenous citizenry. Based on U.S. and Native government sources, this project explains how Reconstruction politics and priorities transformed Indian Territory as part of the growth of federal supremacy throughout the continental United States. Federal policymakers sought to reconstruct the Five Tribes of Indian Territory through a variety of legislative and legal reforms, including the Reconstruction Treaties of 1866, the expansion of federal jurisdiction, the allotment of tribal land, and the dissolution of Native governments in favor of single statehood. While piecemeal and often disjointed, this darker side of Reconstruction achieved many more of its aims than its southern sister project, securing the plenary power of the U.S. Congress over Indian affairs at the price of tribal sovereignty. Reconstruction has long been a southern narrative, but this project demonstrates that we cannot fully account for the successes and failures of the multiregional and multinational project of Reconstruction without Indian Territory.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Stern, Alexandra Elise |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | White, Richard, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | White, Richard, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Campbell, James |
| Thesis advisor | Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa |
| Degree committee member | Campbell, James |
| Degree committee member | Hobbs, Allyson Vanessa |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alexandra E. Stern. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Alexandra Elise Stern
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