Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory governance A god will return

A god will return

WHEREAS is a masterful example of compositional resistance

prose poems so vital it feels like they've burst free of punctuation

McLeod tells a coming-of-age tale familiar to many Indigenous people

ranging from Andrew Jackson to John Chivington and George Armstrong Custer

Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory governance A god will returnIn May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington's small but growing bureaucracy. But as the policy unfolded over the next decade, thousands of Native Americans died under the federal government's auspices, and thousands of others lost their