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To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from the Earliest Times to the Indian Removals
Author(s): Thomas N. Ingersoll (Author)
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 450 pages
- ISBN-10: 0826332870
- ISBN-13: 9780826332875
Book Description
In this groundbreaking study, Thomas Ingersoll argues the Jacksonian American Indian removal policy appealed to popular racial prejudice against all Indians, including special suspicion of mixed bloods. Lawmakers also perceived a threat to white Americans’ transatlantic reputation posed by the potential for general racial mixture, or ‘amalgamation’. Beginning in the 1780s, and for the ensuing half-century, alarmed government officials attempted to separate full blood and mixed-blood Indians into enclaves in the Far West, to isolate them from white migrants out of the eastern states and prevent the rise of a new, genuinely alternative mixed society. Ingersoll begins by examining the origins and early history of mixed bloods in North America. He follows with the lives of individual mixed bloods, an exploration of how the growing mixed population informed racial thought in the Early National Period, and the role of mixed-blood chiefs in opposing the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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The Native Americans of mixed ancestry in 1830 and why Andrew Jackson implemented a law to remove them.
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Thomas N Ingersoll
