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

by Dawn Peterson

Book Overview

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 household. Through the stories of nearly a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents, Dawn Peterson opens a window onto the forgotten history of adoption in early nineteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737555
• ISBN13: 9780674737556
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Harvard
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"