title: Lincoln and the Indians: CIVIL WAR POLICY AND POLITICS
author:  David A. Nichols 
description: Now available for the first time in paperback, Lincoln and the Indians remains the only thorough treatment of a much-neglected aspect of Lincoln's presidency.Placing Indian affairs in the broad context of Civil War politics and the settling of the West, David A. Nichols covers the Sioux War of 1862 in Minnesota, the forced removal of the Navajos from their homeland to the deadly concentration camp at Bosque Redondo, and the massacre of Cheyennes by volunteer troops at Sand Creek. He also examines Lincoln's inept handling of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory and the corrupt "Indian System" of government aid that mainly benefited ambitious whites.
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  # Stephen A. Douglas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Allen Johnson
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PREFACE.
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK I. THE CALL OF THE WEST
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. FROM THE GREEN MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES
  
  
  
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. THE RISE OF THE POLITICIAN
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. LAW AND POLITICS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV. UNDER THE AEGIS OF ANDREW JACKSON
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. MANIFEST DESTINY
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. WAR AND POLITICS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII. THE MEXICAN CESSION
  
  
  BOOK II. THE DOCTRINE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. SENATOR AND CONSTITUENCY
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX. MEASURES OF ADJUSTMENT
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X. YOUNG AMERICA
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XI. THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XII. BLACK REPUBLICANISM
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIII. THE TESTING OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK III. THE IMPENDING CRISIS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIV. THE PERSONAL EQUATION
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XV. THE REVOLT OF DOUGLAS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVI. THE JOINT DEBATES WITH LINCOLN
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVII. THE AFTERMATH
  
  
    
  