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The Cherokee removal : a brief history with documents / Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green.
- Title
- The Cherokee removal : a brief history with documents / Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green.
- Publication
- Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2005.
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- Description
- xv, 198 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.
- Summary
- 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 selections present a variety of perspectives on this episode in American history. An introductory essay provides background information on racial attitudes, economic issues, and expansionism in early nineteenth-century America. Also included in the volume are detailed headnotes, photographs and maps, a chronology, and an index. --From publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Bedford series in history and culture
- Uniform Title
- Bedford series in history and culture
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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" ; 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.
- ISBN
- 0312415990 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2004101944
- 9780312415990
- OCLC
- 56635834
- SCSB-12489483
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library