Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American EmpireThe Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines, Cuba, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty abroad, argues Katharine Bjork, had a precedent in earlier relations with Native nations at home. In Prairie Imperialists, Bjork traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army's conquests of what its soldiers called "Indian Country" generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America's new island territories following the War of 1898. |
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... Indian scouts in which he served. Mustered out of service in 1897, the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche scouts of Fort Sill's Troop L constituted the last of such units of indigenous auxiliaries created by Congress in 1866 for service in the ...
... Indian Country, Hugh Lenox Scott, John J. Pershing, and Robert Lee Bullard all expressed veneration for a ... scouts—both native and white— became central to the army's prosecution of wars of Indian dispossession and pacification as the ...
... Indian Wars were playing out in the American West and at the height of racialized colonial expansion by European ... scouts as well as in the service of empire. Less recognized is the way native scouting developed as an embodiment of colonial ...
... Indians. The war put an end to the book project. Scott abandoned his research to join the scrum of ambitious officers ... Indian scouts, his experience dealing with several hundred Apache prisoners sent to Fort Sill after the surrender ...
... Indian ways,” seasoned frontier campaigners, including Generals Sheridan, Miles, Merritt, and Ruger, sought his ... scouts in the 1880s and 1890s also provided the basis for the kind of diplomacy he pursued with other farther-flung“primitive ...
Contents
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Part II Indian Country Abroad | 117 |
Part III The Last Indian War | 199 |
Notes | 253 |
Bibliography | 299 |
Index | 329 |
Acknowledgments | 337 |
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