Bulletin n. 2-3/2013
February 2014
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Troy Smith
    Nations colliding: the civil war comes to indian territory
    in Civil War History , Vol. 59, n°3 ,  2013
    In 1861, the leaders of the “Five Civilized Tribes” in Indian Territory (Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws and Seminoles) officially allied with the Confederacy. Several different concepts of nationhood were colliding in the area: the U.S. and Confederacy models, as well as the indigenous peoples’ recently constructed modern governments. The Native American leaders stressed cultural and economic ties to the South, and to the institution of slavery they had adopted; many of their citizens, however, maintained traditional views of race and nation, and resisted both the Confederacy and their leaders’ political vision. Confederate representatives wooed the tribes with recognition of their sovereignty, which fit into the Confederate governmental approach, while exerting pressure on those indigenous leaders who hesitated. The execution of the war not only deeply divided the nations of Indian Territory, it enabled the Five Tribes’ political and economic elites to solidify their modernist vision.
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