ARTHUR H. DEROSIER, JR. - The Removal of the Choctaw Indians

Knoxville: The University of Tennesse Press, 1970. 1st. Hardcover. 16x23.3CM. "The Choctaw Nation, one of the largest and most properous tribes of American Indians east of the Mississippi River, was the first tribe to be removed by the federal government from its ancestral home to assigned lands in the trans-Mississippi West. For the government, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, signed on September 27, 1830, marked the end of a long period of formulation and the beginning of its Indian policy - a policy of removal. Thus, the Choctaw removal, although important in itself, is doubly important as the prototype that established the pattern of Indian removal in the nineteenth century." Red boards, gilt & black titling and black illustration on spine slightly creased at ends; content clean, crisp and uncreased, binding tight; price clipped jacket bears rubs and scuffs, sunned spine creased at head.. Very Good to Near Fine .