Living in the Land of Death
The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860
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Donna L. Akers
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With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Territory, or, as they knew it, the Land of the Dead (the route taken by the souls of Choctaw people after death on their way to the Choctaw afterlife). Their first few years in the new nation affirmed their name for the land, as hundreds more died from whooping cough, floods, starvation, cholera, and smallpox.
Living in the Land of Death depicts the story of Choctaw survival, and the evolution of the Choctaw people in their new environment. Culturally, over time, their adaptation was one of homesteads and agriculture, eventually making them self-sufficient in the rich new lands of Indian territory. Along the Red River and other major waterways, several Choctaw families of mixed heritage built plantations, and imported large crews of slave labor to work cotton fields. They developed a sub-economy based on interaction with the world market. However, the vast majority of Choctaws continued with their traditional subsistence economy that was easily adapted to their new environment.
The immigrant Choctaws did not, however, move into land that was vacant. The U.S. government, through many questionable and some outright corrupt extralegal maneuvers, chose to believe it had gained title through negotiations with some of the peoples whose homelands and hunting grounds formed Indian Territory. Many of these indigenous peoples reacted furiously to the incursion of the Choctaws onto their rightful lands. They threatened and attacked the Choctaws and other immigrant Indian Nations for years.
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- The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
- By: Bernard Bailyn
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
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Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.
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A feast for genealogy/history buffs
- By judithh on 07-21-16
By: Bernard Bailyn
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Lone Star
- A History of Texas and the Texans
- By: T. R. Fehrenbach
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 39 hrs and 17 mins
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Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War.
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Top -10
- By JNW on 03-29-18
By: T. R. Fehrenbach
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Lakotas and the Black Hills
- The Struggle for Sacred Ground (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
- By: Jeff Ostler
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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In this enthralling narrative, professor and award-winning author Jeffrey Ostler recounts the Lakota Sioux’s loss of their spiritual homeland and their remarkable legal battle to regain it. Moving easily from battlefields to reservations to Supreme Court chambers, Ostler captures the strength that bore the Lakotas through the worst times and kept alive the dream of reclaiming their cherished lands.
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not interested in this kind of detail
- By Dennis F Rumsey on 03-30-22
By: Jeff Ostler
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
- Native America from 1890 to the Present
- By: David Treuer
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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The received idea of Native American history - as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did 150 Sioux die at the hands of the US Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative.
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excellent text, awful narrator
- By D. Rubinstein on 12-01-19
By: David Treuer
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Dawn of Detroit
- A Chronicle of Bondage and Freedom in the City of the Straits
- By: Tiya Miles
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has pieced together the experience of the unfree - both native and African American - in the frontier outpost of Detroit.
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Great!
- By Melissa Eisner on 05-30-18
By: Tiya Miles
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El Norte
- The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
- By: Carrie Gibson
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots - ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims by a century, and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation as it exists today.
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Chicken Noodle History
- By Jose on 10-30-19
By: Carrie Gibson
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Trail of Tears
- A Captivating Guide to the Forced Removals of Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Nations
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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One of the darkest and cruelest chapters in the history of the United States occurred when the nation’s young government decided to remove the native peoples from their lands in the name of profit. Having helped settlers for hundreds of years, five Native American tribes found it increasingly more difficult to relate to, and trust, the country that had once acted as their allies. The native peoples had fought alongside the Americans to gain freedom from England, the nation that the colonists deemed oppressive and unfair.
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Opinions, not unwarranted, overwhelming
- By Zinjanthropus on 06-09-19
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The Comanche Empire
- By: Pekka Hamalainen
- Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
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In the 18th and early 19th centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political prestige, economic power, commercial reach, and cultural influence. Yet, until now, the Comanche empire has gone unrecognized in American history. This compelling and original book uncovers the lost story of the Comanches.
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A comprehensive evaluation
- By A on 02-28-18
By: Pekka Hamalainen
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The Indian World of George Washington
- The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
- By: Colin G. Calloway
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
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Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware; in the process, he returns them to their rightful place in the story of America's founding. The Indian World of George Washington spans decades of Native American leaders' interactions with Washington, from his early days as surveyor of Indian lands to his military career against both the French and the British to his presidency.
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A Washington hate book
- By EJ morris on 02-08-19
What listeners say about Living in the Land of Death
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- April H.
- 05-08-16
Living in the Land of Death
"This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of Audiobook Blast."
An interesting look at Native American culture in the 1830-1860 time period.
The narration was well done as a monologue.
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- J. Warren Benton
- 11-11-16
Comprehensively Choctaw
This book gives a comprehensive history of the Choctaw tribe. I knew little of them before this book. The Choctaw's were one of the last civilized tribes. The Choctaw women were not view as inferior as women were at the time in White culture. Choctaw's viewed reading as important and really supported their children going to school. Not just the boy but they wanted their girls in school long before society thought they should. One common theme throughout the book as westward expansion really screwed the native Americans.
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- EP
- 06-19-16
History of the Choctaw Nation
Where does Living in the Land of Death rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Three of the greatest tragedies/crimes in human history:
1) The Holocaust
2) The African Slave Trade
3) The Dispossession of Native American Land by European Colonists
This audiobook extensively chronicles the tragic history of the Choctaw Nation as it struggles to cope with the arrival and expansion of the White population into the Choctaw's ancestral lands, circa 1830.
Although most of us know how the story ultimately ends, the shocking and sordid details described in this audiobook will leave listeners disgusted and ashamed of the U.S. government for using its laws to STEAL Choctaw land and to (nearly) destroy an entire ethnic group.
The research behind this historical account is impressive, and it is narrated quite well.
This is a great audiobook!
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- Deedra
- 05-13-17
Living in the land of Death
This is a long, but interesting history of the other histories and how they were compiled about the Choctaw and 4 other nations recognized by the government at the time.Sadly a lot of the misinformation was second hand because no on did first hand interviews.I was amazed and appalled at much of the info.Sally Martin did a fine job narrating.I was provided this book free by the author,narrator or publisher.
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- pixledust
- 05-13-16
Very Dry History of the Choctaw
What did you like best about Living in the Land of Death? What did you like least?
I liked the origination story of the Choctaw people. I had never heard it. I find it intriguing that traveling for 43 years to a sacred forever home is part of their origination tale. It is unusual in that the actual origin is unknown or not considered important enough to pass down. There were many interesting details in this story. One comes to know them well because they are reiterated more than once. This detracts from the story.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Some aspects of the history are fascinating. The U.S. strategy of getting Choctaw leaders into debt and then trading debt forgiveness for land was new to me. The 53 minute introduction was a critique of other historical treatments of the Choctaw nation. While it is important material, it needed an editor. It could have been covered in half the time. This is the definition of extreme academic padding.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Sally Martin?
Not unless she was on crack. The narrator has a relaxed voice and gives an insipid delivery of a very repetitive book. The audio quality was good and she reads accurately, but the combination of the repetitive material and her calm, slightly monotonous voice kept putting me to sleep.
Was Living in the Land of Death worth the listening time?
Yes, it represents a little know area of history and some parts of it are very interesting.
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- MolllyT
- 05-25-16
A proud people more honest than the government
Apparent thesis documenting the beliefs and history of a people who populated the North American SouthEast until forced to leave by government bigots. I used to think that Jefferson was somewhat honorable, "All men are created equal" and all that. However, it seems that he was no better than any other crook, and ordered his agents to cheat these and other indigenous peoples out of their rightful properties. Already known is the revenge/hatred by Jackson of all indigenous people and the horrors that he forced upon them.
This study goes into the matriarchal society of the Choctaw, and how their belief system clashed with the bigoted society moving into and across North America, as well as the hostilities from the people who were effectively dispossessed by their banishment to an inhospitable land so alien to their homeland.
There is much information presented that is probably unfamiliar to most people who were not intimately affected by what happened to the Choctaw.
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The narrator gave her presentation as if a lecture, and therefore spoke more slowly so as to enhance the listener's ease in notetaking.
Addendum: In 1847 during the Irish potato famine, the Choctaw Nation of Native Americans donated money to assist with famine relief. The Irish have just completed a monument of appreciation. “These people were still recovering from their own injustice. They put their hands in their pockets and raised $1m in today’s money. They helped strangers. It’s rare to see such generosity. It had to be acknowledged."
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- Johannaber's
- 06-07-16
I never knew most of this information
This is an excellent story. I love factual history. This reveals more information about the underhanded things the government and local officials did to the indigenous people of The America's. I thought I knew a good bit about the Choctaw Indians, but this book included some facts that I know are not ever going to go in the main stream history books.
I am especially interested in the Trail of Tears. In Georgia, it started in the Sautee Nacoochee Valley and carried on out West to some of the worst land available. This is a very intense story.
I enjoyed listening to this audiobook. Sally Martin did a great job narrating this audiobook.
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- Reg
- 03-17-17
Trail of Tears History
This is a thorough, comprehensive history of the Choctaw nation from 1830-1860 and beyond. There is history related to the social structure and culture of the tribe; along with its traditions and chief figures. Foremost, it details the time period leading up to the relocation and resettlement of tribal lands from the east coast to west of the Mississippi river. I particularly enjoyed learning about some of the main figures of the tribe, the matrilineal lineage of the family, how it was women who made major decisions , how they fought for girls to be educated along with boys, and how the Choctaw Nation slowly recovered not only from being uprooted and unceremoniously dumped into hostile and barren territory but also from disease and natural disasters that almost wiped them out. Another part I found very informative was how the U.S. government allotted the Indian nations lands but did not respect their way of life or their ingrained culture and social structure. If they were going to make the Choctaws their own nation within the U.S., there should have been more respect given to how the society worked. Instead, the church and government worked together to undermine the native culture and traditions and replace it with ‘western’ culture and U.S. values.
There is no doubt that the U.S. was set on taking Indian land. There is no doubt that the Indian nations were not treated fairly or with respect by Andrew Jackson or anybody else in government at that time and for many years before or afterwards. There is no doubt that the pervasive message to the tribes was to assimilate or be forcibly assimilated. There is no doubt that after the ‘relocation’ the tribes were treated despicably by the government and the courts.
My one criticism of this history is that there is absolutely no responsibility taken by the tribes themselves. Over and over again, the use of alcohol is used to get them drunk before ‘negotiations’ take place. This is given as a reason why many actions were taken by the tribe. But their own culture taught moderation in all things. Yet alcohol was overused continuously and after a couple of times, wouldn’t it have been a better strategy to abstain when going to these ‘negotiations’ so no blame could be placed on alcohol later for bad deals? The truth is their own people sold the tribes out time and again. There is no discussion about the many times tribe members sold tribal property and land for a pittance of what it was worth. After recounting these horrible actions, the author always places blame squarely on the U.S. representatives and puts no responsibility on the tribes for not learning to avoid alcohol when negotiating. I would have liked to see the author take a more balanced approach of recognizing the U.S. duplicity and steadfast intent on taking tribal lands and yet be able to see tribal shortcomings as well and talk about where their own strategy, or lack thereof, steered them wrong and how they did not appear to learn from their interactions with the corrupt U.S. government.
Another area I think is important to point out is that the U.S. government, technically, did not have to give the tribes any land for themselves or recognize them as their own nations. I can’t think of another country in modern times that has, in essence, conquered another land and yet still recognized them and allotted space for the entire people. The tribes in Canada were certainly not treated this way. And in Europe and South America it is unheard of. The slaves of the south were expected to integrate after emancipation. The tribes themselves would take conquered foes as slaves and thus integrate them into the tribe over time. Conquered nations are generally assimilated into the cultures of those who take over. I think it is extraordinary that the tribes have done so much with the little they were given as ‘compensation’ for their displacement but I have to be honest and recognize that it is extraordinary that the relocation happened in the first place.
The narration by Sally Martin was good. I enjoyed her voice and would listen to other audiobooks she has narrated. I listened to the audiobook on 1.5 speed which may have helped with the slow speed of her delivery.
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- cafurg
- 09-14-16
Eye opener
Would you consider the audio edition of Living in the Land of Death to be better than the print version?
Easy listen.
What does Sally Martin bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Good narration. Would listen to more of her narrations.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Eye opening story of the Choctaw nation, and Native Americans in general.
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- Daman
- 05-31-16
Interesting look into the Choctaw nation...
What did you like best about this story?
The plight of the Choctaw Nation and their struggles which gave the reader an insight into corrupt US leaders who made their lives difficult.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It made the appreciate the struggles and plight of the Choctaw Nation.
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