The dispossession of Native Americans
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🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:45.8 | 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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