Article describes the history of alliances some Indian nations made with Confederate forces during the Civil War and examines the reasons for the alliances, which included connections, the promise of economic wealth, and threats of land removal.
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Article describes the history of alliances some Indian nations made with Confederate forces during the Civil War and examines the reasons for the alliances, which included connections, the promise of economic wealth, and threats of land removal.
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Abstract: Long before the shots at Fort Sumter opened the Civil War, secessionists in Arkansas and Texas cast covetous eyes on the Indian Territory, sure of its strategic importance to the southern cause. Union negligence, southern sympathy among agents, and decades-old tribal dissension provided fertile ground for Confederate overtures to the resident tribes of Indian Territory. The late William Graves explores Confederate Indian policy and the Indians' eloquent attempts at resistance.
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