A review by glowe2
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

The book documents how Native American tribes in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi were systematic denied rights granted to them in the Constitution and official treaties during the 1830's.  These actions were condoned and carried out at the highest levels in the administration, including President Andrew Jackson.  The author is a professor of history at the University of Georgia and the book reads like an academic paper, full of facts and details but not a sense of outrage about not only what happened but how the United States still struggles with the same issues - racism, greed, corruption, etc.