Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory - Claudio Saunt Audiobook
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“Unworthy Republic will make you weep for what this country did to Native Americans. An absolute must read.” - Mehrsa Baradaran, Professor of law at the University of California, Irvine
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington’s small but growing bureaucracy. But as the policy unfolded over the next decade, thousands of Native Americans died under the federal government’s auspices, and thousands of others lost their possessions and homelands in an orgy of fraud, intimidation, and violence. Unworthy Republic reveals how expulsion became national policy and describes the chaotic and deadly results of the operation to deport 80,000 men, women, and children.
Drawing on firsthand accounts and the voluminous records produced by the federal government, Saunt’s deeply researched book argues that Indian Removal, as advocates of the policy called it, was not an inevitable chapter in U.S. expansion across the continent. Rather, it was a fiercely contested political act designed to secure new lands for the expansion of slavery and to consolidate the power of the southern states. Indigenous peoples fought relentlessly against the policy, while many U.S. citizens insisted that it was a betrayal of the nation’s values. When Congress passed the act by a razor-thin margin, it authorized one of the first state-sponsored mass deportations in the modern era, marking a turning point for native peoples and for the United States.
In telling this gripping story, Saunt shows how the politics and economics of white supremacy lay at the heart of the expulsion of Native Americans, how corruption, greed, and administrative indifference and incompetence contributed to the debacle of its implementation, and how the consequences still resonate today.
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This post has 13 comments with rating of 5/5
October 25th, 2021
Of course, the dispossession began in the colonial era.
October 25th, 2021
@caesar: yes it did and even in the pre-colonial era. The French traders from Canada unknowingly spread diseases that decimated the native populations, leading the colonial settlers in the 1600s to believe they were moving into a much less populated country than it would have been otherwise.
As the colonial settlers pushed west from the coast the population was sparse compared to what it had been previously.
Later, the westward expansion became institutionalized into government policy that continued to press upon the natives and squeeze them every time there was something of value to the settlers. Treaty promises weren’t worth the paper they were written upon.
October 25th, 2021
The Brutish empire innovation of impregnating blankets with smallpox & generously sharing them with the native population didn’t really help. Or p’haps such attitudes & practices did help - the Brutish themselves, that is. You could refer to it as a bad beginning.
October 25th, 2021
Have been looking for this. Thanks so much!
October 25th, 2021
A keeper. Thank you very much.
October 25th, 2021
@caesar: smallpox blankets is a lie. This never happened. It was alleged to have happened at a fort in Canada one time. But this is not really proven. There are no contemporary sources of allegations of doing it to the natives. Be real… when did germ theory become common knowledge?
October 26th, 2021
Thanks for this.
@caesar963 The brits came up with that blanket thing? I always thought it was us yanks. Pity to learn even our genocide was derivative.
@ssafe05 Treaties still aren’t. There’s a case in Alaska where the state is suing a fellow I used to hang out with in an effort to force an easement through his native allotment in violation of ANCSA. And ANCSA was only passed in 1971. Can’t even reroute a road they decided they want to give the illusion of respecting a recent congressional native treaty.
October 26th, 2021
@trollprince didn’t notice your comment.
First instance of recorded bio weapon use occurred during the Siege of Caffa in 1346 when a corpse (possibly several) with the black death was catapulted over a wall. Became a not uncommon practice after that. Knowledge that things which sick people touch, or the bodies of the sick, carry disease was common knowledge by around the 15th century, this predated germ theory. They knew it happened, but had no accurate idea as to why until the invention of the microscope.
If you want to be technical about it, germ theory, under one definition, goes back at least two thousand years to Mosaic Law (Hebrew bible contains instructions on quarantine for diseases) and ancient Greece (some surviving writings from there do too.)
None of this proves that blankets were intentionally infected with small pox of course, but, given all the other things we’ve done to native peoples, I find it entirely credible.
October 26th, 2021
Hi trollprince, I asked Google whether the infected blackets thing was true, or not? The first search result was the History Channel. https://www.history.com/.amp/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets
It seems it did happen.
October 26th, 2021
That diseases spread - when did this become common knowledge? Widespread fear of the spread/vectors of disease? Uh, yeah.
In June, 1763, smallpox broke out among the British garrison in Fort Pitt (present-day Pittsburgh, Pa.). During a parley on June 24, 1763, the commander of the British, Ecuyer, gave the Lenape Indians (also the Shawnee, Delaware) several items taken from smallpox patients. “We gave them two blankets and a handkerchief out of the smallpox hospital,” Captain William Trent of the garrison militia wrote in his journal. “I hope it will have the desired effect.”
These efforts to spread smallpox among the natives was entirely approved by the senior command structure. While Colonel Henry Bouquet was preparing to lead a British expedition to relieve Fort Pitt, Sir Jeffery Amherst sent him a note on June 29: “Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among the disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them.”
Bouquet wrote back, “I will try to inoculate the bastards with some blankets that may fall into their hands, and take care not to get the disease myself.” Amherst replied on July 16, advocating exposure to smallpox “by means of blankets, as well as every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.”
However, British forces on the ground had in fact already committed this action before receiving orders from Bouquet or Amherst.
The action was also later sanctioned by Amherst’s replacement, General Thomas Gage.
As per, it’s a dirty business.
So, not “Fake Nooze” again.
October 26th, 2021
@caesar963 I don’t tend to disagree with you, but blaming the blanket incident on the “British Empire”, sounds more of vitriol than fact. The idea was proposed by a Swiss mercenary in service of the British and was acted upon before receiving permission.
https://www.historynet.com/smallpox-in-the-blankets.htm
October 26th, 2021
“Swiss mercenary” is far too convenient, given the clear (prior) approval by the British command structure, as evidenced in their communications. This was the brutish imperial dynamic in operation - very far from being an isolated incident of barbarism. Its examples are legion; deployment of population clearances, expedient management of famines, genocide, repression, terror tactics used on civilian populations, etc. - & “every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.”
December 30th, 2023
i think trollprince wasnt to be taken serious guys… hence his name lmfao
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