{"product_id":"rivers-of-sand-9781496219541","title":"Rivers of Sand","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAt its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks, while at the same time demanding their emigration to Indian territory, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the arrival of detachment sixin the West in late 1837, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were moved—voluntarily or involuntarily—to Indian territory. \u003ci\u003eRivers of Sand\u003c\/i\u003e fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing the full breadth and depth of the Creeks’ collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first y\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRivers of Sand\u003c\/i\u003e explores how American citizens used various levers to pry the Creek nation out of its ancestral homeland in Georgia and Alabama. The result, Haveman argues in the book’s most important conclusion, was the ethnic cleansing of the antebellum South. Whether or not scholars accept the argument remains to be seen, but the book forces us to reconsider the basic language and periodization of the field. . . . Haveman’s interpretation derives great force from the spadework he undertook to uncover exactly how the [ethnic] cleansing happened.”—James Taylor Carson, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Christopher Haveman presents a much-needed and compelling narrative of the forced removal of the Creek Indians. In Haveman’s hands, the inexorable weight of American expansion is felt as it played out on the ground in rampant and illegal land speculations, the forced signing of treaties, the invasion of Americans into Creek country, corrupt contractors, bitter intra-Creek disputes, and the subsequent suffering and grief of thousands of Creek men and women forced into exile from their homelands.”—Robbie Ethridge, author of \u003ci\u003eCreek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Haveman offers an unflinching look at America’s own ethnic cleansing in this carefully researched study of Indian removal. A powerful book that exposes the brutality of U.S. policy while never losing sight of the perseverance of Indian people.”—Christina Snyder, author of\u003ci\u003e Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through this comprehensive assessment of nineteenth-century Creek removal policy, Haveman exposes various methods of ethnic cleansing ranging from explicit laws, through manipulative treaties, to the push and pull of economic factors, enacted through various agents all the while retaining a focus on the plight of Creeks and their continued survival and pride despite the tragic events endured.\"—Melanie Vasselin, \u003ci\u003eNative American and Indigenous Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Scholars interested in knowing more about not only the Creek experience but also the logistics that shaped the removal process on the ground should read \u003ci\u003eRivers of Sand\u003c\/i\u003e.\"—John P. Bowes, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating work.\"—J.R. Burch Jr., \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Haveman's narrative of Creek removal during the early to mid-nineteenth century is a testament to exhaustive research and judicious analysis.\"—Bryan Rindfleisch, H-AmIndian\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply researched and clearly written, \u003ci\u003eRivers of Sand\u003c\/i\u003e gives readers a lot to contemplate.\"—Robert M. Owens, \u003ci\u003eTribal College Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Haveman has produced a sensitive, readable, and comprehensive account of the ethnic cleansing of Creek Indian people from the American South. While other scholars have addressed the political roots of the removal, the many frauds that emerged from it, and the consequences for reestablishing the Nation in the West, this book will stand as the go-to work for those seeking a broader understanding of Creek removal as a whole as well as those hoping to identify the vast array of materials that document both the suffering and the resilience of the Creek people.\"—Angela Pulley Hudson, \u003ci\u003eAlabama Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of IllustrationsSeries PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on TerminologyIntroduction: Water, 18481. Treason: 1825–272. Fission: 1827–283. Frenzy: 1828–294. Fraud: 1829–355. Eclipse: 1833–366. Sand: 1828–507. Chains: 18368. Coercion: 1836–379. Defiance: 1837–4910. Perseverance: 1837–82Conclusion: Persistence, 2014List of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409230373207,"sku":"9781496219541","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496219541.jpg?v=1730506054","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rivers-of-sand-9781496219541","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}