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- Title
Accounting for Conquest: The Price of the Louisiana Purchase of Indian Country.
- Authors
Lee, Robert
- Abstract
The article discusses the significance of the Louisiana Purchase concerning the amount of money the U.S. government paid Native Americans for their soil rights in the area covered by the acquisition. It discusses scholarship on the subject by scholar Felix S. Cohen, Native American claims litigation against the U.S. government, and relations between the U.S. government and Native Americans.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LOUISIANA Purchase; LAND tenure of Native Americans; UNITED States history; 19TH century Native American history; COHEN, Felix S., 1907-1953; VALUATION; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY; REAL property sales &; prices
- Publication
Journal of American History, 2017, Vol 103, Issue 4, p921
- ISSN
0021-8723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jahist/jaw504