| Titre | Le Dakota du sud à la fin du XIXe siècle : colonisation par spoliation | |
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| Auteur | Élise Marienstras | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 48-49, avril-juillet 1991 La terre américaine. | |
| Page | 13 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
This paper attempts to show how the settlement of the territory of Dakota, and, later on, the formation of South and North Dakota, were rooted in the spoliation by the Whites of lands which belonged to autochtonous peoples. By studying the dual process of land speculation and land dispossession in the history of Dakota, one should better understand how this region — once called « The Great American Desert » but which came to be known in the early 1880s as the « granary of the world » — was to bring ruin to many farmers, and to become, at the end of the decade, the scene of a most ugly massacre of a band of Sioux Lakota by the Seventh Cavalry at Wounded Knee. In the 1880s the failure of both federal land policy and Indian policy during the nineteenth century became obvious. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1991_num_48_1_1423 |
