Ethnic cleansing and the Indian: the crime that should haunt America

ǂt Introduction : Definitions of genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes in modern world history

ǂt The native New World

ǂt European penetration of the New World

ǂt Interregnum : Natives and a reformed colonial land policy

ǂt A new kind of ethnic cleansing : the frontier "Rangers" and the assault on Native America

ǂt The American invasion

ǂt The Jeffersonians and the removal game

ǂt The great land grab

ǂt Unscabbarding the bayonet : Andrew Jackson and the policy of forced ethnic cleansing

ǂt The Western domain : Indian Country

ǂt The stealing of a golden land : ethnic cleansing in California

ǂt The "diminishment" of the native domain : Oregon and Washington

ǂt The Great Plains : war crimes, reservations, peace commissions, and reformers

ǂt The "peace policy" : benevolent ethnic cleansing

ǂt The Red River "wars" : the collapse of the peace policy

ǂt General Sheridan and the ethnic cleansing of the Northern Lakota Sioux

ǂt The Indians' "last stand" against ethnic cleansing

ǂt Epilogue : Allotment and the final ethnic cleansing of America.