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The dispossession of Native Americans

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Historian Claudio Saunt discusses his recent book Unworthy Republic, which tells the story of the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of Native Americans from their lands by the US government in the mid-19th century. The book has recently been shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're listening to the History Extra podcast brought to you by the team behind BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

1:02.5

I'm Matt Elton. Today's podcast guest is the historian Claudio Sont, Professor of History at the University of Georgia.

1:09.4

Claudio is the author of Unworthy Republic, The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory,

1:11.5

one of the books shortlisted for this year's kundle prize, of which History Extra is a media partner. I caught up with Claudio to find out more.

1:19.0

Your book covers a story about the expulsion of Native American people, which is a story I think I

1:25.2

knew the very broad outlines of, but not the specifics

1:28.5

and not the human stories. First of all, would you mind just very briefly and broadly

1:32.9

setting out the period your book covers and also the kind of scale involved? Yeah, so the book

1:39.4

Unworthy Republic treats what we call Indian removal, this period in the 1830s, when the federal government

1:50.2

had an official policy to move every single indigenous person living within the United States

1:57.6

west of the Mississippi River. And it's important to recall that in the 1830s, the states

2:04.4

were limited to the area east of the Mississippi. So the area west was largely owned by Mexico.

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