The Business of Killing Indians: Contract Warfare and Genocide in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

The article focuses on the 19th-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the contract warfare and genocide that took place there against Native Americans. The author discusses bounty laws in Chihuahua, Durango, and Sonora, examines the influence Southern Apaches and Comanches asserted in these regions, a...

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Published in:Journal of American History no. 1; pp. 15 - 40
Main Author: Kiser, William S
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2023
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