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In a Barren Land; American Indian Dispossession and Survival
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In a Barren Land; American Indian Dispossession and Survival Paperback - 2002

by Marks, Paula Mitchell

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New York: Quill [0-688-16633-4] [1999]. (Trade paperback) Very good plus. 451pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. (Indians of N.A., Government Relations--United States, Indians of North America--Removal).
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  • Title In a Barren Land; American Indian Dispossession and Survival
  • Author Marks, Paula Mitchell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint Edition
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Quill, New York
  • Date 2002-07-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 139283
  • ISBN 9780688166335 / 0688166334
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.21 x 1.34 in (23.50 x 15.77 x 3.40 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.049

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First line

They were strange and rather pitiful, the voyagers who sailed into the bay and up the river and began scratching out an odd sort of village on a swampy peninsula.

From the rear cover

With In a Barren Land, award-winning historian Paula Mitchell Marks reconfirms her status as one of the foremost contemporary chronicles of America and the American West. Following her And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight ("should come to be regarded as definitive" -- Booklist) and Precious Dust ("far and away our best social history of the gold rush experience" -- The Washington Post Book World), she now tells the often appalling yet always engrossing story of American Indian cultures under siege from 1607 to the present.

Marks dramatically illustrates how, across the nation over the course of nearly four centuries, America's original inhabitants were stripped of both their land and their way of life by a series of broken promises and bloody persecutions. Here are such well-known events as the Battle of Little Big Horn, the Trail of Tears, and the massacre at Wounded Knee. And here, too, are such equally well-known personalities as Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Cochise, and Andrew Jackson, a president whose perfidies to the Indians still retain the power to shock and dismay.

In a Barren Land is an enduring contribution to the endlessly fascinating and controversial story of the settling of America.

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