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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... against the subzero cold and blizzard conditions, Miles's men had relentlessly pursued the Cheyenne and Lakota (Sioux) hunting bands who searched for game and camped with Miami Key West Cienfuegos C A R I B B 2 Introduction.
... hunter, woodcraftsman or fighter of savages or outlaws, all in one word, scout. In this the high and the low, civilized and savage, the general and the private soldier, differ not. Emperors and kings, princes, leaders, teachers, the ...
... Hunter, a friend of both Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. It was at his grandmother's instigation that Uncle David secured an appointment for Hugh Lenox Scott to West Point from President Grant.5 Uncle David accompanied Len Scott ...
... hunter. From an early age—rather to the consternation of his bookish family—he had spent all his available time ... hunting helped him develop other“arts of the field” such as swimming, handling a boat, and riding a horse.30 Like ...
... Hunter “who knew everybody in the War Department.” Uncle David received Scott's application for the Seventh Cavalry at breakfast the next day and carried it to the War Department where they were making the transfers to the regiment, and ...
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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