The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873/Ronald D. Parks

Descriere & specificații

Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period , Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe's original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas. Parks makes use of accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers in crafting this tale. He addresses both the big picture--the effects of Manifest Destiny--and local particulars such as the devastating impact on the tribe of the Santa Fe Trail. The result is a story of human beings rather than historical abstractions. The Kanzas confronted powerful Euro-American forces during their last years in Kansas. Government officials and their policies, Protestant educators, predatory economic interests, and a host of continent-wide events affected the tribe profoundly. As Anglo-Americans invaded the Kanza homeland, the prairie was plowed and game disappeared. The Kanzas' holy sites were desecrated and the tribe was increasingly confined to the reservation. During this "darkest period," as chief Allegawaho called it in 1871, the Kanzas' Neosho reservation population diminished by more than 60 percent. As one survivor put it, "They died of a broken heart, they died of a broken spirit." But despite this adversity, as Parks's narrative portrays, the Kanza people continued their relationship with the land--

Produse similare

University of Oklahoma PressPopol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya; The Great Classic of Central American Spirituality, Translated from the Original Maya Tex, Paperback/Allen J. Christenson

220,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressThe Acoustic Guitar, Vol. II: Adjustment, Care, Maintenance, and Repair, Paperback/Don E. Teeter

242,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressThe Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival, Paperback/Brian McGinty

120,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressThe Life and Legends of Calamity Jane, Hardcover/Richard W. Etulain

169,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressGreat Surveys of the American West, Paperback/Richard a. Bartlett

176,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressFree to Be Mohawk: Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School, Paperback/Louellyn White

215,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressChoctaw Language and Culture: Chahta Anumpa, Paperback/Marcia Haag

229,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressThe Mescalero Apaches, Paperback/C. L. Sonnichsen

126,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressBig Dams and Other Dreams: The Six Companies Story, Paperback/Donald E. Wolf

222,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressPeoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915, Paperback/Steven L. Grafe

296,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressThe Cayuse Indians: Imperial Tribesmen of Old Oregon Commemorative Edition, Hardcover/Robert H. Ruby

285,99 lei

University of Oklahoma PressRuling the Waters: California's Kern River, the Environment, and the Making of Western Water Law Volume 4, Paperback/Douglas R. Littlefield

218,99 lei