The study analyzes the evolution of American Indian policy. It surveys the European background then focuses on North America, examining the colonial Indian policies of Spain, England, France, Holland, Sweden, and Russia, which set the stage for American policy. In a series of wars to control eastern North America, England triumphed. British Imperial Indian policy became the basis for American policy. / During the Revolution most Indians supported England, thwarting American desires to use or neutralize them. After the war America considered the Indians defeated powers, dictating terms to them. This proved unfeasible and the United States adopted the prerevolutionary British policy. / In the 1790s, problems developed including state resistance to federal authority in Indian affairs, Indian refusal to be slowly dispossessed, British intrigues in the Northwest, Spanish machinations in the Southwest, and in establishing means to regulate Indian affairs. Acts were passed to provide regulation. The factory system was created and trade and intercourse acts were adopted to regulate Indian affairs. Early expeditions to defeat the Indians were unsuccessful. State versus federal problems remained unsolved as did English and Spanish concerns. / The turning point was the War of 1812. England was defeated. The Indians east of the Mississippi River were militarily broken. Between 1810-1813 America seized Spanish West Florida neutralizing that area. Two problems remained: the jurisdictional question and Spanish-Black-Indian troubles in East Florida. / America purchased East Florida from Spain in 1819 ending colonial concerns there. The jurisdictional problem would only be solved by dispossessing the Indians in the troublesome states. By the 1820s, American Indian policy had entered a new phase. All colonial concerns were ended and America was free for the first time to adopt its own Indian policy. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-06, Section: A, page: 2064. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74835 |
| Contributors | GRAVES, WILLIAM HILTON., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 253 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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