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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... Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lee Bullard, 1911 205 Chapter 9 Washington and the Border: Brigadier General Hugh Lenox Scott, 1911–1916 218 Chapter 10 The Punitive Expedition: Brigadier General John J. Pershing, 1916 231 Notes 253 ...
... Lieutenant Pershing was part of an eight-company contingent of the Sixth Cavalry that made the train trip from New Mexico to South Dakota, along with all their horses and mules. In the aftermath of the Wounded Knee massacre, Pershing ...
... lieutenant of cavalry. When he was seconded to the Bureau of Ethnology to write a book on sign language, even Colonel John Wesley Powell deferred to his expertise in the subject. The work in military ethnography he undertook as a ...
... Lieutenant Morton Stretch, one of his tactical officers, both of whom had served at posts with the black cavalry units, and that both had told him that “they [were] as good as any in the service.”12 When they were small boys growing up ...
... lieutenant in the Tenth Cavalry“Buffalo Soldiers,” the same regiment Scott had written to his mother about joining during his final year. The presence of black cadets at the country's foremost military academy challenged the “fortified ...
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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