{"product_id":"ethnic-cleansing-and-the-indian-the-crime-that-should-haunt-america-9780806151748","title":"Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America","description":"Mention \"ethnic cleansing\" and most Americans are likely to think of \"sectarian\" or \"tribal\" conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however, the United States has its own legacy of ethnic cleansing, and it involves American Indians. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eEthnic Cleansing and the Indian, \u003c\/i\u003eAnderson uses ethnic cleansing as an analytical tool to challenge the alluring idea that Anglo-American colonialism in the New World constituted genocide. Beginning with the era of European conquest, Anderson employs definitions of ethnic cleansing developed by the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to reassess key moments in the Anglo-American dispossession of American Indians. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Euro-Americans' extensive use of violence against Native peoples is well documented. Yet Anderson argues that the inevitable goal of colonialism and U.S. Indian policy was not to exterminate a population, but to obtain land and resources from the Native peoples recognized as having legitimate possession. The clashes between Indians, settlers, and colonial and U.S. governments, and subsequent dispossession and forcible migration of Natives, fit the modern definition of ethnic cleansing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To support the case for ethnic cleansing over genocide, Anderson begins with English conquerors' desire to push Native peoples to the margin of settlement, a violent project restrained by the Enlightenment belief that all humans possess a \"natural right\" to life. Ethnic cleansing comes into greater analytical focus as Anderson engages every major period of British and U.S. Indian policy, especially armed conflict on the American frontier where government soldiers and citizen militias alike committed acts that would be considered war crimes today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on a lifetime of research and thought about U.S.-Indian relations, Anderson analyzes the Jacksonian \"Removal\" policy, the gold rush in California, the dispossession of Oregon Natives, boarding schools and other \"benevolent\" forms of ethnic cleansing, and land allotment. Although not amounting to genocide, ethnic cleansing nevertheless encompassed a host of actions that would be deemed criminal today, all of which had long-lasting consequences for Native peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnderson, Gary Clayton:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eGary Clayton Anderson, \u003c\/b\u003e Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875\u003c\/i\u003e. His book \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention\u003c\/i\u003e won the Angie Debo Prize and the publication award from the San Antonio Conservation Society.","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461222699282,"sku":"9780806151748","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7eca68b8-7318-4c63-9b37-29ac202a5fd2.jpg?v=1730060354","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ethnic-cleansing-and-the-indian-the-crime-that-should-haunt-america-9780806151748","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}