248 Notes
the textbook reflected its intent. The title of the first chapter is "A Conti
nent of Villages, to I500."- Jennings, Invasion of America, I5·
- For a revealing comparative study, see Gump, "Civil Wars in South Dakota
and South Africa,"' 42 7-44. In relying on the ancient origin story of the
covenant, the modern state of Israel is also using exceptionalist ideology,
refusing to acknowledge the settler-colonial nature of the state. Donald
Harman Akenson, God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa,
Israel, and Ulster (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, I99I), I51-
82, 227 -62, 3II-48. - Akenson, God's Peoples, 9.
- Jacobson, The Story of Stories, Io.
IO. Akenson, God's Peoples, 30-3I, 73-74.
II. Ibid., 112.
I2. See Miller, Errand in the Wilderness; Jennings, Invasion of America; Vow-
ell, Wordy Shipmates.
I3. Phillig.s, Cousins' Wars, I77-90.
I4. Akensen, God's Peoples, 118.
I5· See Green, People with No Name.
I6. The presidents include Andrew Jackson, I829-37; James K. Polk, I845- 49 ;
James Buchanan, I856-6I; Andrew Johnson, I865-69; Ulysses S. Grant,
I869-77; Chester A. Arthur, I88I-85; Grover Cleveland, I885-89 and
I893-97; Benjamin Harrison, I889-93; William McKinley, I897-I90I;
Theodore Roosevelt, I90I-9; Woodrow Wilson, I9I3-21; Harry S. Tru
man, I949-53; Richard M. Nixon, I969- 74 ; Jimmy Carter, I977-8I;
George H. W. Bush, I989- 93 ; Bill Clinton, I993-200I; George W. Bush,
200I-2009; and Barack Obama, 2009-.
I7. For a Scots-Irish family history, see James Webb, Born Fighting. Webb
proudly served in the US Marine Corps and became navy secretary in the
Reagan administration and later a Democratic Party senator from Vir
ginia. Webb assumes that the United States is a great and powerful country
and owes that position largely to Scots-Irish settlers.
I8. Degler, Out of Our Past, 51.
CHAPTER FOUR: BLOODY FOOTPRINTS
Epigraph: John Grenier, The First Way of War, 5, IO. Grenier is an air force of
ficer and associate professor of history at the US Air Force Academy.- LaDuke, Militarization of Indian Country, xv-xvii.
- O'Brien, American Indian Tribal Governments, 205-6. To be recognized
as "Indian Country," usually the land must either be within an Indian
reservation or it must be federal trust land (land technically owned by the
federal government but held in trust for a tribe or tribal member). For most
purposes, the types of Indian country are as follows: