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I asked Dr. Manu Karuka, American Studies scholar and author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad, about the impact of the railroad on Indigenous peoples and nations. A Native American man looking at the Central Pacific Railroad, about 1869. Courtesy of Library of Congress.
In autumn 1864, while the Civil War raged half a continent away, a group of Cheyenne Indians made winter quarters on Sand Creek in Colorado Territory, having been invited there by the U.S. Army ...
Dec 27, 2021 · Allegiance to the Federal Government. Approximately 20,000 Native Americans served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War, participating in battles such as Pea Ridge, Second Manassas, Antietam, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and in Federal assaults on Petersburg. By fighting with the white man, Native Americans hoped to gain favor ...
Dec 15, 2009 · The westward expansion of the United States is one of the defining themes of 19th-century American history, but it is not just the story of Jefferson’s expanding “empire of liberty.”. On the ...
May 2, 2022 · By enlisting during the Civil War, Chinese-Americans challenged the United States’ racial binary to expand beyond white, black, and mulatto. The gray-area surrounding Chinese-Americans’ racial classification made them victims of racially-motivated slander and acts of violence. Nonetheless, Chinese-Americans joined the Civil War cause in the ...
Regionalism was the most significant literary mode after the Civil War, fueled by an explosion in magazine publication, postwar curiosity about the different parts of the United States, and a sense of nostalgia for a rural past that always already seemed to be slipping away. In regionalist texts, setting is central.
May 14, 2020 · Native American sovereignty, including land loss, railroads, allotment, territorial government, white settlement, and finally statehood. The six chapters within this dissertation offer new interpretations of Civil War Indian Territory, and the first three chapters illuminate how Native Americans became mired in the
