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American Settler Colonialism: A History

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by Walter L. Hixson


  Batson, Matthew, 173, 179

  Battle of the Greasy Grass (Little Big Horn), 69, 139, 143, 174

  Battle of River Raisin, 73–4

  Battle of Tippecanoe, 72, 78

  Bear River Massacre, 127

  Bell, Franklin, 175–6

  Bent, William, 120–1

  Bhaba, Homi, 3–6, 13

  Blackfeet, 136–7, 139

  Black Hawk, 76–7, 85, 135, 138, 198

  Black Hoof, 74–5

  Black Kettle, 121–3

  Blaine, James, 154, 156

  Blue Jacket, 68–70

  Boone, Daniel, 61–2

  Borderlands, vi–xi, 1, 4, 14–15, 18, 20–21, 32, 49, 54–64, 72, 74, 79, 87–88, 94–96, 106, 127, 129, 145, 161, 172, 197

  Braddock, Edward, 49–52, 69

  Bradford, William, 32–3, 39, 64

  Brant, Joseph, 58, 66–9

  Bureau of Indians Affairs, 103, 119, 141, 164

  Caddo, 42, 117–18

  Cahokia, 23

  California, 9, 27, 88–9, 92–4, 100, 103–4, 113, 123–4, 128, 134, 136, 150, 152, 161, 163, 185

  Calusa, 26

  Canada, 4, 7, 29, 66, 73–5, 135, 165, 198, 200

  Captivity narratives, 11, 50, 91

  Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 141, 187

  Carolina, 38–40, 60, 77

  Carson, Kit, 100, 130, 133

  Cass, Lewis, 81, 116

  Catawba, 53–4, 111

  Cayuga, 38

  Cayuse, 127–8, 134, 153

  Cebu (Philippines), 173, 180

  Césaire, Amié, xi, 2

  Chaco Canyon, 23–4

  Chaffee, Adna, 174–5

  Cherokee, 40–1, 43, 53, 59, 61, 66, 75, 77, 79, 81–4, 91, 102, 111, 115, 117–18, 130, 163

  Cheyenne, 120–2, 131, 135, 139

  Chickasaw, 40, 42–3, 53, 70, 77, 79, 82, 102, 111, 118

  Chief Joseph, 135–6

  China, 42, 126, 146, 154, 158, 170, 184, 189

  Chinooks, 134

  Chivington, John, 121–2

  Choctaw, 40, 43, 46, 70, 77, 79–82, 102, 111, 118

  Christianity, see religion

  Civil War, x–xi, 15, 87, 95, 106–13, 118–20, 129–30, 132, 137, 139, 143, 145, 154, 162, 172, 175, 197, 226 (fn)

  Clackamas, 134

  Clark Field (Philippines), 182, 184

  Clark, George Rogers, 59–60, 62

  Clark, William, 115, 135

  Cleveland, Grover, 156–7

  Coacoochee, 84, 89–90

  Cochise, 131, 135

  Cody, “Buffalo Bill”, 63, 186

  Cold War, 12, 165, 183

  colonial space, viii–ix, 4, 6–7, 10–12, 14, 20, 26, 32, 47–48, 55–66, 70, 72, 76, 78, 81, 87–88, 92, 99, 104, 113–14, 126, 133, 138, 145, 150, 155, 182, 190, 193, 195, 197–98

  Colorado, 120–2, 127–9, 132

  Columbus, Christopher, 25–6

  Comanche, 13, 28, 42, 89, 92, 99, 102–3, 111, 117, 120–2, 130–1

  Congress, U.S., 65, 67, 72–3, 80–1, 93, 97, 102, 113–15, 118–19, 122, 125–6, 128, 134, 140, 144, 157, 159–63, 165, 170, 176, 186–7, 190–1, 193–5

  Connecticut, 38

  Cook, James, 8, 147–8, 160

  Crazy Horse, 135–9

  Cree, 139

  Creeks, 26, 40–1, 43, 53, 59–61, 63, 77–9, 82, 111, 117–18

  Crook, George, 110, 125–6, 133, 139, 173

  Crows, 137–9, 187

  Cuba, 104, 153, 157, 168, 170–1, 179

  Custer, George, 69, 84, 122–3, 138–9

  Dawes Act (General Allotment Act), 114, 142, 159, 164, 169, 171, 187, 192

  Declaration of Independence, 58, 66

  Delaware (Indians), viii–ix, 36, 48–49, 54–55, 59, 61, 70–71, 111, 115, 117–18

  Denmark, 160, 165

  diplomacy and alliances, viii, 3–4, 7, 9, 13–15, 17–18, 23–30, 33, 35–6, 39–48, 53–4, 57–8, 62, 64–79, 81–3, 89, 100, 111, 114–15, 122–3, 128–32, 134–5, 138, 140, 145, 148, 150–1, 154, 161–4, 167–70, 179, 186, 190, 194, 199–200

  see also trade and treaties

  disease, impact of, 15, 24–33, 36–7, 43, 47, 53, 66, 71, 75, 77, 82–3, 97, 116, 123–4, 134, 141, 145, 161, 164, 173–6, 186, 188, 195

  Doctrine of Discovery, 6, 9, 45, 67, 83, 200

  see also law

  Dole, Sanford, 155, 159

  Dunmore’s War, 57, 62, 67

  Dutch, 2, 8, 29, 35–6

  Eaton, John, 80, 82

  Erie (Indians), 38

  ethnic cleansing, 1, 5, 8–9, 11, 15, 18–22, 48, 55, 61–4, 67–8, 73–80, 83, 85, 91–2, 103, 114–15, 126, 130, 133–6, 142, 202 (fn)

  Evans, John, 121–2, 127

  Fanon, Frantz, 2, 10

  Filibusterism, 79, 103–6

  Florida (La Florida), 26–7, 37–40, 60, 63, 77–80, 84–5, 133

  Fort William Henry, 50–1

  Fox, 42, 76, 117, 187

  France, 22, 25, 28–9, 39–41, 45, 48–9, 52–4, 70, 75, 94, 114–15, 148–51, 161

  Fremont, John, 100, 104, 133

  French and Indian War, 45, 48, 51, 53, 55, 71, 79

  Freud, Sigmund, 21, 120, 158

  Fur trade, 28–9, 35, 37, 41, 43, 48, 57, 71, 133, 162

  gender, 9, 19, 23–5, 29–34, 37, 43, 46–7, 52, 89, 97, 108, 115, 125–8, 152, 158, 161, 178–9, 197

  males and masculinity, 3, 7, 10, 24, 30, 34, 37, 41, 46–7, 52, 79, 84, 89, 103–4, 114, 121, 128, 142, 152, 169

  women and, 10–11, 20, 23, 29–30, 34, 38, 41–2, 46, 54, 75, 81, 84, 89, 97, 126–7, 142, 152, 156, 158, 178–9

  genocide, vii, x, 5, 8, 10–13, 17–22, 30–5, 60–4, 67, 72, 74, 113, 117–20, 124–5, 129–32, 137, 140, 142, 146, 187, 197, 208 (fn)

  Georgia, 39, 60, 77, 81–3, 92, 110

  Germany, vii, 18–19, 109, 198

  Geronimo, 133, 177

  Ghost Dance (Sioux), 11, 143, 177

  Gnadenhutten, vi–ix, 60, 74, 121

  Grant Ulysses, 93, 109, 111, 118–20, 137, 140–1, 178

  Great Britain (England), viii, 7–9, 27–36, 38, 40–2, 45, 48–9, 51–61, 65–6, 69, 72–4, 77–80, 93, 95, 105, 115, 147–50, 157, 160–1, 164, 198

  Great Mahele (Hawai’i), 151–4

  Guam, 146, 167–8

  Haida, 160, 162

  Hamilton, Henry, 59–60

  Harmar, Josiah, 68–9

  Harrison, William, 71–4, 76, 78

  Hawai’i, xi, 145–6, 162, 165–8, 171, 179, 185–91, 194, 197–9

  Asian settlers in, 154–5, 158–60, 189–91

  spirituality, 147, 149

  see also Kanaka Maoli

  Hill, Daniel, 97, 101

  Hispanics, 14, 20, 27, 85–90, 94, 99–102, 106, 123–8, 181, 187, 197

  see also Mexican War

  Historical distortion and denial (disavowal), 8, 11–13, 22, 23, 62–3, 67, 69, 80, 85, 100–1, 106, 156, 169, 185, 189, 199

  Honduras, 105–6

  Hopi, 130, 141

  Houston, Sam, 91, 102, 108

  Hukbalahap (Philippines), 182–3

  Huron, 29, 38, 54

  Idaho, 127, 136

  Illinois, 67, 75–6

  Illinois (Indians), 41

  Indiana, 59, 62, 67, 69–71, 75

  Indian Civilization Act, 140

  Indian Removal Act, 63–4, 77–84, 115–19

  Indian Reorganization Act (Indian New Deal), 140, 164, 187

  Indians

  children removed, 8–11, 18, 20, 47, 125, 140–2, 197

  Mississippian culture, 23–5, 36–7

  spirituality, 6, 11, 23–5, 31, 34, 39, 43, 55, 64, 71–2, 78, 81, 143, 177

  as “vanishing race”, 4, 12, 35, 47, 64, 72, 81, 85, 113, 133, 135, 154, 162, 185, 189, 197

  Indian Slave Trade, 14–15, 24–6, 29, 32–44, 50, 56, 88, 125–9

  Indian Territory, 77, 82, 111, 114–18

  Indian Trade and Intercourse Act, 116

  Iowa, 75–6

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  Iroquois, 13, 29, 36–8, 48, 56–9, 66, 128, 187, 194, 215 (fn)

  Israel (Zionism), 4, 12, 18–19, 21, 198

  Jackson, Andrew, 64, 68, 73, 78–84, 92, 103, 116

  Japan, 146, 154, 158–60, 164–5, 182, 189, 198

  Jefferson, Thomas, 56, 60, 67–8, 72, 77–8

  Johnson, William, 57–8

  Kalapuyas, 134

  Kamehameha III, 149–51

  Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian Islanders), 145–60, 189–91

  Kansas, 77, 107, 111, 122, 136, 172

  Kearney, Stephen, 99–100

  Kentucky, 57, 59–61, 68–70, 74–7, 108

  Kickapoo, 60, 74, 102, 117–18, 142

  King Philip’s War (Metacomet), 33–5, 38

  Kiowa, 99, 102, 117, 122, 130–1, 137

  Klamath, 133–6

  Klickitat, 120

  Knox, Henry, 68–9

  Korea, 146, 154, 158–9, 183, 198

  Lacan, Jacques, 3, 21–2, 158, 199

  law, 6–9, 45, 54–6, 64–7, 75, 81–3, 90, 92, 100, 103–5, 123, 128, 132–3, 142, 145, 149–58, 184, 186, 190–5, 199

  see also Congress, Supreme Court and Treaties

  Lee, Robert, 100, 110

  Lieber, Francis, 109, 172

  Lincoln, Abraham, 88, 131, 137

  Little Turtle, 68–70

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, 157, 171, 176

  Logan, 57, 67 Longue dureé, 2, 27, 29, 146, 157, 162, 199, 202 (fn)

  Louisiana, 41, 79, 108, 114

  Louisiana Purchase, 73, 94

  Mahan, Alfred, 154–5, 157

  Maine, 156, 186, 194

  Manifest Destiny, 6, 9, 21, 67, 85, 93–5, 101–6, 113, 130, 134, 157, 162

  see also religion

  Maori, 8

  Mascouten, 69

  Massachusetts (state), 35, 38, 95, 148, 157

  massacres, vi–x, 9, 19–20, 30, 49–51, 56–60, 64, 73, 76, 91, 96–99, 113, 120–25, 127, 130–34, 137–39, 141–44, 147, 174, 177

  McGillvray, Alexander, 61, 68, 78

  McKinley, William, 157, 168, 170, 174, 176, 178–80

  Mexican War, 14, 87–107, 113, 123–6, 132, 145, 151, 169, 172–3, 175, 186

  see also Hispanics

  Miami (Indians), 68–71, 74

  Miccosukee, 79

  Michigan, 67, 75, 111

  Miles, Nelson, 133–5, 139–40, 143–4, 177

  Mindanao (Philippines), 176–7

  Mingo, 49, 57, 67, 69

  Minnesota, 137

  Missions and missionaries, vii, 10–11, 27–9, 39–42, 61, 77, 81, 88, 100, 123–4, 134, 140–1, 146–9, 152–3, 163–4

  see also religion

  Mississippi, 77, 81

  Missouri, 107, 110, 115

  Modoc, 133, 136

  Mohawk, 29, 38, 57–8, 66, 96

  Mohegan, 33

  Mohicans, 12, 29, 111

  Molalas, 134

  Monroe, James, 80, 94, 168

  Montana, 116, 127, 135–8

  Mosby, John, 107, 109

  Munsee, 69

  Narragansett, 33–5

  Natchez, 41–2

  Navaho, 26, 90, 99, 129–30, 136, 187

  Nebraska, 93, 116–17, 138

  Neolin, 55, 71

  Nevada, 127, 136

  New Deal, 140, 164, 187

  New Mexico, 27, 42, 87, 93, 99–100, 121, 126, 128, 130, 133, 150

  New York, 35, 38, 48, 59, 66, 95

  New Zealand, 4, 7–8, 29, 151, 200

  Nez Perce, 127–8, 135–6

  Nicaragua, 104–5

  North Carolina, 40, 77, 85, 110–11

  North Dakota, 143

  Northwest Ordinance, 66–7, 74

  Occaneechi, 32, 38

  Ohio, 54–61, 67–75, 95–6

  Ojibwa (Chippewa), 54, 69, 75, 111, 137

  Oklahoma, 77, 82, 115, 117, 133, 136, 185

  Omaha, 116–17

  Oneida, 38

  Onondaga, 38

  Opechancanough, 31–2

  Oregon, 93, 113, 116, 124, 127, 133–8, 160

  Orientalism, 3, 18, 176–7

  Osage, 115–17, 122

  Otoe Missouria, 116

  Ottawa, 41, 49–50, 54, 59, 69, 74–5, 111

  Ouray, 128–9

  Paiute, 126, 128, 136

  Palouse, 135

  Pamunkey, 32, 111

  Papago, 132

  Parker, Ely, 111, 119, 140

  Partisan Ranger Act, 107–10

  Passamaquoddy, 194

  Patuxet, 32

  Pawnee, 116, 137

  Penn, William, 48, 128

  Pennsylvania, vii, 48–9, 53, 56–8, 74, 141

  Pequot, 33, 36, 38, 111, 194

  Philippine Intervention, x–xi, 15, 95, 167–84, 238 (fn)

  see also Philippines

  Philippines, 146, 154, 158, 165, 167–85, 197–8, 238 (fn)

  Piankashaw, 69–70

  Pocahontas, 30, 85, 126

  Polk, James, 92–5, 100–2, 223–4 (fn)

  Pomo, 124

  Ponca, 116

  Pontiac’s Rebellion, 54, 62, 125

  postcolonial, ix–xi, 2–4, 12–14, 16–17, 22, 158, 165, 167, 181, 185–96, 197–98, 203 (fn)

  Potawatomi, 49–50, 69, 74, 77, 116–17

  Powhatan, 30–1

  psychological explanations, 3–4, 20–2, 64, 81, 85, 101, 119, 134, 185, 199

  fantasy, 4, 9, 12, 21, 26, 47, 62, 65, 87, 103, 106, 142–3, 169, 197, 199

  psychic anxiety, trauma, 3–4, 20–2, 30–5, 47–50, 55–6, 64, 71, 74, 84–5, 107, 137, 177, 197–8

  Pueblo Revolt, 28, 123

  Puerto Rico, 153, 167–8, 186

  Puritans, 32–5

  Quantrill, William, 107–8

  Quapaw, 115

  Red Cloud, 138–9, 143

  Red Power movement, 188–9, 193

  Red River Wars, 130–1

  religion, v–viii, 4–7, 9–11, 18, 23, 25–34, 38–43, 48, 58, 60–61, 63, 71, 73, 76–77, 79–81, 83, 89–96, 100, 106–08, 114, 119, 121–24, 134–36, 140–43, 146–53, 157, 164, 170–71, 176–77, 180–81

  Euro-Americans belief in Providential destiny, 4, 6–7, 9–12, 21, 32–3, 39, 47, 55, 64–7, 71, 73, 80, 85, 87, 92–5, 101–4, 107, 113, 116, 130–1, 134, 143, 151, 157–8, 162, 170, 197, 200; see also Manifest Destiny

  see also Missions and missionaries

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 142, 154, 157, 171, 174, 176–8

  Royal Proclamation, 54–5

  Russia, 42, 145–50, 160–5

  Sacajawea, 126–7

  Sac (Sauk), 69, 76, 117, 187

  St. Claire, Arthur, 68–70, 139

  Sand Creek, 51, 120–4, 127–8, 132

  Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de, 91–2, 97

  Schurz, Karl, 140–1

  Scott, Winfield, 97, 100–2

  Seminole, 40, 43, 79, 84–5, 118, 127, 171

  Seneca, 38, 59, 74, 111, 119, 140

  Seward, William, 154, 162

  Shasta, 125

  Shawnee, vi, 39, 49, 54, 57–63, 68–71, 74–5, 78, 102, 115, 118, 143

  Sheridan, Philip, 109, 118–22, 131, 137–8, 171

  Sherman, William, 84, 107–9, 118–22, 129, 137–8, 144

  Shoshone, 126–8, 136, 139

  Sioux, 11, 13, 26, 117, 135–9, 143, 171, 189, 195

  Sitting Bull, 85, 135, 139, 143

  slavery, African, 30, 36–7, 41, 64, 67, 70–1, 75, 79–81, 83, 87, 91–2, 105–6, 115, 118, 129–30, 148

  see also African-Americans and Indian Slave Trade

  Smith, Jacob, 174–5

  Smith, John, 30–1

  Soto, Hernando de, 26–8

  South Africa, 4, 7–8, 12, 18, 21, 115, 172, 198

  South Carolina, 40–1, 46, 53, 109–11

  South Dakota, 138, 143, 188

  Spain, 25–31, 39, 42, 52, 60, 65, 79–80, 84, 87–91, 94, 100, 104, 115, 123–6, 148, 157, 168–9, 176, 179–81

  Spanish-American War, 13, 157, 167, 171, 186, 238
(fn)

  Stevens, Isaac, 134–5

  Subic Bay (Philippines), 182, 184

  Sullivan, John, 58–9

  Supreme Court, U.S., 80, 83, 186, 193–5

  see also law

  Tallahassee, 79

  Tallapoosa, 79

  Taylor, Zachary, 84, 93–101

  Tecumseh, 71–8, 135, 144

  Tennessee, 75–9, 91, 95, 108

  Tenskwatawa (The Prophet), 71, 75–6, 143

  Texas, 27–8, 37–42, 88–92, 102–3, 108–13, 130–1, 150

  Texas Rangers, 91, 96–8, 103, 108, 130

  Timucua, 39

  Tlingit, 160–2

  Tolowa, 124–5

  trade, vii, 8–9, 13, 15– 24–30, 33–7, 41–54, 57, 62, 64, 71, 133, 136, 149, 162, 197

  see also Fur trade

  Transcontinental Treaty, 80, 94

  treaties, 3, 9, 45, 66, 69, 81–3, 100, 115, 122–3, 128–9, 134–5, 138, 140, 151, 154, 194

  see also diplomacy and specific entries below

  Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, 82

  Treaty of Easton, 51, 54

  Treaty of Fort Jackson,78

  Treaty of Fort Laramie, 138

  Treaty of Fort McIntosh,69

  Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 57, 69

  Treaty of Fort Wayne,71–2

  Treaty of Ghent, 73–4

  Treaty of Greenville, 70–1

  Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 102–3

  Treaty of Miami Rapids, 75

  Treaty of New Echota, 83

  Treaty of Paris (1763), 51

  Treaty of Paris (1783), 61, 70, 79

  Treaty of Paris (1898), 170

  Treaty of Waitangi, 8

  Turner, Frederick, 14, 16

  Tuscarora, 40

  Underhill, John, 33, 36

  United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 18

  United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 186, 200

  Utah, 127–9

  Ute, 42, 89–90, 99, 126, 128–30

  Vietnam, 101, 175, 183, 190, 198

  Villejo, Mariano, 100, 124

  Virginia, vii, 30–2, 38, 53–8, 66–7, 107, 109, 111, 148

  Walker, William, 104–6

  Walla Walla, 135

  Wampanoag, 33–4

  Wappos, 124

  War of 1812, 63, 71–9, 115

  warfare

  “American Way of War,” x, 1, 15, 20, 29, 70, 84, 87, 95, 119, 198–9, 202 (fn)

  collective punishment, 15, 19, 87, 95, 98–101, 107–10, 119, 163, 172–3, 175

  Euro-American indiscriminate violence and warfare, ix, x, 1, 4, 8–9, 15–20, 26–34, 47, 51–6, 88, 147–8

  Indian indiscriminate violence and warfare, vii–ix, 6, 13–15, 20–25, 28–34, 41–43, 49–50, 53, 56, 62, 64, 69, 73, 76, 78–79, 89–90, 121, 127–28, 136–39, 197

  U.S. indiscriminate violence and warfare, vii–x, 1, 15, 17, 19, 21, 59–60, 68, 71–73, 87, 90–110, 119–27, 130–37, 143–44, 162, 167–77, 183, 197–200, 238 (fn)

 

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