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Book Review
| The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825–1855. By William E. Unrau. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv + 201 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
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Among the consequences of Indian removal in the early-nineteenth century was the emergence of a new Indian country west of the Mississippi River. This was the unorganized region in which tribes took new lands in exchange for their homes in the East. As federal authorities completed one removal treaty after another, a large cluster of émigré nations coalesced in the center of the continent. The United States promised to protect this Indian country, guaranteeing that the removed communities would keep their lands as long as they so chose. |
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