Text, Image and the Discourse of Disappearing Indians in Antebellum American Landscape Painting
From 1801 through 1835, American Natives—mostly east of the Mississippi or from the Great Lakes and Ohio areas—signed 189 treaties with the Federal Government formally acknowledging appropriation of their lands. But as Georgia Governor Gilmer phrased it in 1830, “Treaties were expedients by which i...
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Interfaces
2020
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| Länkar: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sammanfattning: | From 1801 through 1835, American Natives—mostly east of the Mississippi or from the Great Lakes and Ohio areas—signed 189 treaties with the Federal Government formally acknowledging appropriation of their lands. But as Georgia Governor Gilmer phrased it in 1830, “Treaties were expedients by which ignorant, intractable, and savage people were induced without bloodshed to yield up what civilized people had a right to possess by virtue of that the Command of the Creator delivered to man upon hi... |
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