The Tainted Gift
The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion
1st Edition
Published on 3. September 2009
200 pages
978-0-313-35339-0 (ISBN)
Description
For the first time, an accomplished scholar offers a painstakingly researched examination of the United States' involvement in deliberate disease spreading among native peoples in the military conquest of the West.
The speculation that the United States did infect Indian populations has long been a source of both outrage and skepticism. Now there is an exhaustively researched exploration of an issue that continues to haunt U.S.-Native American relations.
Barbara Alice Mann's The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion offers riveting accounts of four specific incidents: The 1763 smallpox epidemic among native peoples in Ohio during the French and Indian War; the cholera epidemic during the 1832 Choctaw removal; the 1837 outbreak of smallpox among the high plains peoples; and the alleged 1847 poisonings of the Cayuses in Oregon. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Mann's work is the first to give one of the most controversial questions in U.S. history the rigorous scrutiny it requires.
The speculation that the United States did infect Indian populations has long been a source of both outrage and skepticism. Now there is an exhaustively researched exploration of an issue that continues to haunt U.S.-Native American relations.
Barbara Alice Mann's The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion offers riveting accounts of four specific incidents: The 1763 smallpox epidemic among native peoples in Ohio during the French and Indian War; the cholera epidemic during the 1832 Choctaw removal; the 1837 outbreak of smallpox among the high plains peoples; and the alleged 1847 poisonings of the Cayuses in Oregon. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Mann's work is the first to give one of the most controversial questions in U.S. history the rigorous scrutiny it requires.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-35339-0 (9780313353390)
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09/2009
Praeger Publishers Inc
€77.40
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Person
Barbara Alice Mann is a PhD scholar working heavily in Native American studies.
Content
Foreword by Series Editor Bruce Johansen
Introduction
1. "Out of Our Special Regard for Them": The 1763 Gift of Smallpox
2. "The Land of Death": The Choctaw Removal into Cholera, 1832
3. "Death Put into Her Arm": Smallpox on the Upper Missouri, 1837
4. "How Many Times Are You Going to Talk?": The Accusationof Poisoning against Marcus Whitman
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. "Out of Our Special Regard for Them": The 1763 Gift of Smallpox
2. "The Land of Death": The Choctaw Removal into Cholera, 1832
3. "Death Put into Her Arm": Smallpox on the Upper Missouri, 1837
4. "How Many Times Are You Going to Talk?": The Accusationof Poisoning against Marcus Whitman
Notes
Bibliography
Index
