The Half Breed Tracts in Early National America
Changing Concepts of Land and Place
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In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers. The treaties that established these so-called Half Breed Tracts left undefined exactly who held claim to the land, and by the end of the 1850s, settlers and speculators had appropriated virtually every acre for themselves. But in an era of ravenous westward expansion, why did the process of dispossession require three decades of debate and legal maneuvering? As David Ress argues, the fate of the Half Breed Tracts challenges longstanding ideas about land tenure and community in early national America.
In 1824 and 1830, over one hundred thousand acres across Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were set aside as a home for descendants of Native American women and white traders and trappers. The treaties that established these so-called Half Breed Tracts left undefined exactly who held claim to the land, and by the end of the 1850s, settlers and speculators had appropriated virtually every acre for themselves. But in an era of ravenous westward expansion, why did the process of dispossession require three decades of debate and legal maneuvering? As David Ress argues, the fate of the Half Breed Tracts complicates longstanding ideas about land tenure and community in early national America.
Explores nineteenth-century ideas about land tenure, property and citizenship through the history of reservations set aside for the children of Native American women and white men Sheds light on an understudied episode in the history of US land policy Appeals to scholars and students of nineteenth-century American history, US land policy, Native American studies, settler colonialism, and the history of ideas of rights and property
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David Ress
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Native American history settler colonialism American frontier Land tenure Property Rights Land use U.S. land policy Sac and Mesquakie nations Midwestern history John Locke squatters severalty scrip westward expansion