How the Indians Lost Their Land Law and Power on the Frontier: Law and Power on the Frontier

by StuartBanner (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $35.07

  Between the early 17th and 20th Century, nearly all the land in the US was transferred from American Indians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two different ways - as a series of consensual transactions, but also as a process of violent conquest. Both views cannot be correct. How did Indians actually lose their land?