American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era Hardcover - 1975

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. xii, 343, [5] pages. Pencil underlining noted. Some soiling, creasing and small tears to dust jacket. Includes five black and white maps, 16 black and white illustrations, Introduction, Notes, Epilogue, Appendix, Selected Bibliography, and an Index. Pencil underlining on several pages. Chapters include Old Hickory Takes Command; The Political Response to the Removal Act; The Test Case of the Removal Policy; Indian Removal; The Promise of Indian Self-Rule in the West; The Office of Indian Affairs; The Indian Field Service; Protecting the Frontiers; Civilizing the Indians. Ronald N. Satz has served as Provost and Vice Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire since 1999. Previously, he served as the university's founding dean of the College of Professional Studies (1995-99), founding dean of the School of Human Sciences and Services (1994-1995), and dean of Graduate Studies and Research (1983-1994) while concurrently serving as founding director of the Center of Excellence for Faculty and Undergraduate Student Research Collaboration (1988-1995). An American Indian historian with a specialty in Indian treaties and treaty rights. He has been a consultant of Indian history and treaty rights to several American Indian tribes and organizations, including the Native American Rights Fund, the American Indian Language and Culture Education Board of the State of Wisconsin, and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. In 1991, Satz received the State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Award of Merit for Distinguished Service to History for his "Chippewa Treaty Rights". The Jacksonian period has long been recognized as a watershed era in American Indian policy. Ronald N. Satz's American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era uses the perspectives of both ethnohistory and public administration to analyze the formulation, execution, and results of government policies of the 1830s and 1840s. In doing so, he examines the differences between the rhetoric and the realities of those policies and furnishes a much-needed corrective to many simplistic stereo-types about Jacksonian Indian policy. After opening with a critical examination of the interplay of constitutional issues, personal ambitions, and partisan politics that led to the passage of the Removal Act of 1830, the author turns to a detailed consideration of the actual experiences of the Choctaws, the first major Indian group to emigrate west under the act. Based on intensive research into primary sources for the period, Professor Satz's study shows many of the old stereotypes concerning Jacksonian Indian policy (among others, those of Jackson's alleged hatred of Indians and his defiance of the Supreme Court in the case of Worcester v. Georgia) to be simplistic. He provides a much needed corrective.