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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction: The Cherokees and U.S. Indian Policy | |
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| The Cherokee People | |
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| Early Contact with British Colonists | |
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| The United States "Civilization" Program | |
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| Cherokee Culture Change | |
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| Pressure for Removal | |
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| Cherokee Resistance and Capitulation | |
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| Cherokee "Civilization" | |
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| Becoming "Civilized" | |
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| Young Wolf, Last Will and Testament, 1814 | |
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| Cherokee Committee, Ruling on Young Wolf's Estate, 1824 | |
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| A Cherokee View of "Civilization" | |
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| John Ridge, Letter to Albert Gallatin, February 27, 1826 | |
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| Christian Missions | |
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| Elizabeth Taylor, Letter to Miss Abigail Parker, June 26, 1828 | |
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| Sally M. Reece, Letter to Reverend Daniel Campbell, July 25, 1828 | |
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| Nancy Reece, Letter to Reverend Fayette Shepherd, December 25, 1828 | |
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| Quantifying Cherokee "Civilization" | |
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| The Census of 1835 | |
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| The Cherokee Constitution of 1827 | |
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| Constitution of the Cherokee Nation: Formed by a Convention of Delegates from the Several Districts, at New Echota, July 1827 | |
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| Georgia Policy | |
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| The Georgia Laws | |
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| Georgia State Assembly, Laws Extending Jurisdiction over the Cherokees, December 19, 1829 and December 22, 1830 | |
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| Georgia and the Supreme Court | |
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| United States Supreme Court, Worcester v. Georgia, March 1832 | |
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| Dispossessing the Cherokees | |
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| Memorial of Protest of the Cherokee Nation, June 22, 1836 | |
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| White Intruders | |
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| Zillah Haynie Brandon, Memoir, 1830-1838 | |
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| United States Policy | |
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| In Defense of the Cherokees: The "William Penn" Essays | |
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| William Penn [Jeremiah Evarts], A Brief View of the Present Relations between the Government and People of the United States and Indians within Our National Limits, November 1829 | |
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| American Women Organize against Removal | |
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| Catherine Beecher, Circular, Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the U. States, December 25, 1829 | |
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| Lewis Cass Justifies Removal | |
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| Lewis Cass, Removal of the Indians, January 1830 | |
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| Congress Acts | |
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| United States Congress, Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830 | |
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| Andrew Jackson Applauds the Removal Act | |
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| Andrew Jackson, State of the Union Address, December 6, 1830 | |
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| The Cherokee Debate | |
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| Women and Removal | |
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| Cherokee Women, Petition, May 2, 1817 | |
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| Cherokee Women, Petition, June 30, 1818 | |
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| Cherokee Women, Petition, October 17, 1821 [1831?] | |
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| Elias Boudinot's Editorials in the Cherokee Phoenix | |
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| Elias Boudinot, Editorials in the Cherokee Phoenix, 1829, 1831 | |
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| The Treaty of New Echota | |
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| Treaty with the Cherokees, 1835 | |
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| The Opposition Continues | |
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| John Ross, Letter in Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, July 2, 1836 | |
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| The Treaty Party's Defense | |
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| Elias Boudinot, Letters and Other Papers Relating to the Cherokee Affairs: Being a Reply to Sundry Publications of John Ross, 1837 | |
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| The Trail of Tears | |
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| Enrollment Memorial of Protest of the Cherokee Nation, June 22, 1836 | |
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| Forced Removal | |
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| Evan Jones, Letters, May-December 1838 | |
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| Waiting to Cross the Mississippi | |
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| George Hicks, Letter from the Trail of Tears, January 13, 1839 | |
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| Removal through a Child's Eyes | |
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| Rebecca Neugin, Recollections of Removal, 1932 | |
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| Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation | |
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| Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Journal, 1841 | |
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| Removal 150 Years Later | |
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| Wilma Mankiller, Reflections on Removal, 1993 | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Chronology of the Cherokee Removal (c. 1700-2003) | |
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| Index | |