The Cherokee removal : a brief history with documents

The Cherokee removal : a brief history with documents / Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green.

"This documentary history provides a treatment of the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians in 1838 from their lands in the southeastern United States to what later became Oklahoma. Drawn from diverse sources - Cherokee writings, government documents, speeches, and newspaper articles - the sel...

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Main Authors: Perdue, Theda, 1949- (Author), Green, Michael D., 1941-2013 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2005]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Bedford series in history and culture.
Subjects:
Trail of Tears, 1838-1839.
Cherokee Indians > History > Sources.
Cherokee Indians > Government relations.
Cherokee Indians > Relocation.
History.
Sources.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The Cherokees and U.S. Indian policy: The Cherokee people ; Early contact with British colonists ; The United States "civilization" program ; Cherokee culture change ; Pressure for removal ; Cherokee resistance and capitulation
  • Cherokee "civilization": Becoming "civilized" ; A Cherokee view of "civilization" ; Christian missions ; Quantifying Cherokee "civilization ; The Cherokee constitution of 1827
  • Georgia policy: The Georgia laws ; Georgia and the Supreme Court ; Dispossessing the Cherokees ; White intruders
  • United States policy: In defense of the Cherokees: the "William Penn" essays ; American women organize against removal ; Lewis Cass justifies removal ; Congress acts ; Andrew Jackson applauds the Removal Act
  • The Cherokee debate: Women and removal ; Elias Boudinot's editorials in the Cherokee Phoenix ; The Treaty of New Echota ; The opposition continues ; The treaty party's defense
  • The Trail of Tears: Enrollment ; Forced removal ; Waiting to cross the Mississippi ; Removal through a child's eyes ; Rebuilding the Cherokee nation ; Removal 150 years later.

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