Indians in the Family : Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion /
Dawn Peterson.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Adopting Indians into the Early U.S. Republic -- 2. American Indians and the Post- Revolutionary Era -- 3. Domestic Fronts on the Eve of 1812 -- 4. A Choctaw Mother in Slave Country -- 5. Adoption in Andrew Jackson’s Empire -- 6. Defending “Civilization” -- 7. Adoption and Diplomacy -- 8. Choctaw Schooling -- 9. Adoption and the Politics of Indian Removal -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index