Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

"In this grim history, Claudio Saunt traces the forced deportation of Native American nations by an administration whose greed, bolstered by a growing rhetoric of white supremacy, robbed sovereign land and condemned thousands to die while publicizing a narrative of Native Americans as inevitably doomed. They were not – and, as Saunt documents, ably defended themselves by word and deed against the looming removal – but white America’s avarice bent the law at will. Unworthy Republic traces the government hypocrisy, civil uproar, petty despotism, chilling bureaucracy and human cost of an attempted genocide America has yet to reckon with."