Hailed for its searing insight, Unworthy Republic transforms our understanding of this pivotal period in American history. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory Hardcover Maby Claudio Saunt (Author) 483 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 7.59 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 17.79 37 Used from 6.07 19 New from 11.97 2 Collectible from 44. The operation soon devolved into an unofficial policy of extermination, enabled by US officials, southern planters, and northern speculators.

Saunt is one of 180 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists honored across 51 fields. In a firestorm of fraud and violence, thousands of Native Americans lost their lives, and thousands more lost their farms and possessions. Claudio Saunt, Regents’ Professor and Russell Professor of American History in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2022 Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. I left the Zoom program yearning to take action to repair, acknowledge and apologize for this historical and. This nation was and is an unworthy republic. In May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. The title of Saunt’s book, Unworthy Republic, comes from a letter describing the U.S.’ maltreatment of the Cherokee as the way in which an unworthy republic would treat others. Named a Top Ten Best Book of 2020 by the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly and a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2020Ī masterful and unsettling history of 'Indian Removal,' the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands. Winner of the 2021 Bancroft Prize and the 2021 Ridenhour Book Prizeįinalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction

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