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Cowsert, Zachery Christian.

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Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory./
作者:	Cowsert, Zachery Christian.
面頁冊數:	95 p.
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International52-06(E).
標題:	History, United States. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1554912
ISBN:	9781303863455

Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory.
Cowsert, Zachery Christian.

Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory. - 95 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis explores the American Civil War in Indian Territory, focusing on how clashing visions of sovereignty within the Five Tribes---Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole---led to the one the most violent and relatively unknown chapters of the Civil War. Particular attention is paid to the first two years of the war, highlighting why the Five Tribes allied with Confederacy, and why those alliances failed over time. Chapter One examines Indian Territory as a borderland, unveiling how various actors within that borderland, including missionaries, Indian agents, white neighbors in Arkansas and Texas, and Indians themselves shaped Native American decision-making and convinced acculturated tribal elites to forge alliances with the Confederacy. These alliances, however, did not represent the sentiments of many traditionalist Indians, and anti-Confederate Creeks, Seminoles, and African-Americans gathered under the leadership of dissident Creek chief Opothleyahola. Cultural divisions within the Five Tribes, and differing visions of sovereignty in the future, threatened to undermine Indian-Confederate alliances. Chapter Two investigates the Confederacy's 1861 winter campaign designed to quell Opothleyahola's resistance to Confederate authority. This campaign targeted enemy soldiers and civilians alike, and following a series of three engagements Opothleyahola's forces were decisively defeated in December. During this campaign, however, schisms with the Confederate Cherokees became apparent. In the weeks that followed, Confederate forces pursued the men, women, and children of Opothelyahola's party as they fled north across the frozen landscape for the relative safety of Kansas. The military campaign waged in 1861, and the untold suffering heaped upon thousands of civilians that winter, exposes how a hard, violent war rapidly emerged within the Confederate borderland, complicating historians' depiction of a war that instead grew hard over time.

ISBN: 9781303863455Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory.
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