Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion by Dawn Peterson

Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion

Dawn Peterson

432 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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During his invasion of Creek Indian territory in 1813, future U.S. president Andrew Jackson discovered a Creek infant orphaned by his troops. Moved by an "unusual sympathy," Jackson sent the child to be adopted into his Tennessee plantation househ...

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