Rivers of Sand
Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4154676 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Carson (0000-0001-8887-9774, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 761-761 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaw385 |
| OpenAlex | W2617028662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Most histories of the Native American South tend to begin or to end with the rupture we know as “Indian removal.” But what if an author twined the before and the after into a story of continuity? Christopher D. Haveman's Rivers of Sand 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. Studies of the Jacksonian South usually attribute to the state and federal governments the responsibility for the expulsions, but Haveman highlights the squatters on Creek land who provided the impetus toward ethnic cleansing. Their thefts, coerced “purchases,” and violent behavior made life for the Creeks utterly impossible. When federal treaty commissioners came calling in the 1830s, many Creeks were amenable to an idea that had been unthinkable only a decade before—the sale and abandonment of their homes. Drawing upon an impressive array of archival sources, Haveman recovers the desolation and despair of the individual Creeks whose choices ran the short gamut from starvation to flight
Abandonment (legal · Argument (complex analysis · Emigration · Ethnic Cleansing · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Homeland · Political science · Politics · Relocation · Sociology · Spell · State (computer science · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |