Ethnic cleansing and the Indian : the crime that should haunt America

Acknowledgments . . vii
Introduction: Definitions of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, and War Crimes in Modern World History . . 3

1. The Native New World . . 23
2. European Penetration of the New World . . 36
3. Interregnum: Natives and a Reformed Colonial Land Policy . . 52
4. A New Kind of Ethnic Cleansing: The Frontier "Rangers' and the Assault on Native America . . 69
5. The American Invasion . . 87
6. The Jeffersonians and the Removal Game . . 110
7. The Great Land Grab . . 128
8. Unscabbarding the Bayonet: Andrew Jackson and the Policy of Forced Ethnic Cleansing . . 151
9. The Western Domain: Indian Country . . 173
10. The Stealing of a Golden Land: Ethnic Cleansing in California . . 192
11. The "Diminishment" of the Native Domain: Oregon and Washington . . 219
12. The Great Plains: War Crimes, Reservations, Peace Commissions, and Reformers . . 237
13. The "Peace Policy": Benevolent Ethnic Cleansing . . 258
14. The Red River "Wars": The Collapse of the Peace Policy . . 274
15. General Sheridan and the Ethnic Cleansing of the Northern Lakota Sioux . . 289
16. The Indians"'Last Stand" against Ethnic Cleansing . . 310
Epilogue: Allotment and the Final Ethnic Cleansing of America . . 329

Notes . . 339
Bibliography . . 411
Index . . 435