Destroying each other: race and the clash of cultures in the Indian Territory Civil War

Krejčí, Adam

Destroying each other: race and the clash of cultures in the Indian Territory Civil War

dc.contributor.advisor	Malka, Adam
dc.contributor.author	Krejčí, Adam
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Anderson, Gary Clayton
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Hyde, Anne
dc.date.accessioned	2020-07-08T15:00:30Z
dc.date.available	2020-07-08T15:00:30Z
dc.date.issued	2020-05-08
dc.date.manuscript	2020-04-27
dc.description.abstract	Most historians of the Civil War have neglected Indian Territory. Those historians who write on the Indian Territory Civil War, like Annie Abel and Mary Jane Warde, focus on tribal political intrigue or the effect of the war on tribal society. Little has been written on how the combatants fought the Civil War in Indian Territory. This thesis intends to add to the extant conversations of the Indian Territory Civil War by examining how the war was fought from a cultural perspective. The Indian Territory Civil War was a clash of cultures between a Euro-American way of warfare and Native way of warfare. Both ways of war were blurred in practice, with Whites expecting Natives to fight according to European conventions and then accusing Natives of “savagery” when Native people shifted to fight in their traditional modes in scalping or fighting guerrilla-style campaigns. Historically White people in North America also scalped and fought in irregular modes, but prior to the Civil War they tried to distance themselves from Native war making warfare by adopting European (largely French) modes of war making. In the blurring of these modes of war making, Whites created a racial distinction without a difference. White Confederates also recognized a racial difference in how the war was fought by categorically excluding Black Union soldiers from the safeguards afforded to surrendering soldiers in the Euro-American military culture. Confederates, White and Native, massacred Black Union soldiers, refusing to afford them the opportunity to surrender. The Indian Territory Civil War, therefore, was simultaneously a war between the Union and Confederacy, an Indian war, and a race war.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244/324964
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	History, United States.	en_US
dc.subject	Civil War	en_US
dc.subject	Indian Territory	en_US
dc.subject	Culture of Warfare	en_US
dc.subject.lcsh	Indian Territory--History
dc.subject.lcsh	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
dc.thesis.degree	Master of Arts	en_US
dc.title	Destroying each other: race and the clash of cultures in the Indian Territory Civil War	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of History	en_US
shareok.orcid	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2280-1103	en_US