Documents of American Indian Removal
byDonna Martinez (Cherokee), PhD, is professor and chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Denver. She is the author of five books.
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This powerful collection of documents illumines the experiences of the original people of the United States during American Indian removal, offering readers a unique standpoint from which to understand American identity and the historical processes that have shaped it.
• Deepens understanding of historical events by providing primary sources including archival material, removal journals, treaties, public speeches, and firsthand accounts of the responses of tribal members who faced removal and the whites who witnessed it• Provides context for documents through introductions and chronological organization that together clarify how the land sales of confiscated Indian homelands built the economic base of the United States
• Gives readers an intimate and provocative look at the larger story of a racially and economically changing nation through tribal voices and those of their white supporters and foes
• Offers a compelling view of the struggle for a segregated non-native political and social structure in the founding of the United States
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Documents of American Indian Removal
Author(s): Martinez, Donna;Contributors: Martinez, Donna;Abstract:This powerful collection of documents illumines the experiences of the original people of the United States during American Indian removal, offering readers a unique standpoint from which to understand American identity and the historical processes that have shaped it.
• Deepens understanding of historical events by providing primary sources including archival material, removal journals, treaties, public speeches, and firsthand accounts of the responses of tribal members who faced removal and the whites who witnessed it• Provides context for documents through introductions and chronological organization that together clarify how the land sales of confiscated Indian homelands built the economic base of the United States
• Gives readers an intimate and provocative look at the larger story of a racially and economically changing nation through tribal voices and those of their white supporters and foes
• Offers a compelling view of the struggle for a segregated non-native political and social structure in the founding of the United States
SortTitle: documents of american indian removalAuthor Info:Donna MartinezauthorDonna Martinez (Cherokee), PhD, is professor and chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Denver. She is the author of five books.
eISBN-13: 9781440854200Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440854200.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440854194Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 296Publication Date: 20181231Series: Eyewitness to History- Cover Cover11
- Half Title i12
- Title iii14
- Copyright iv15
- Contents v16
- Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents ix110
- Historical Introduction xi112
- Chronology xvii118
- Chapter 1 Evolution of Federal Government Policies, 1778-1829 1126
- 1. Treaty of Fort Pitt (Delaware), September 17, 1778 4129
- 2. Secretary of War Henry Knox, Report on the Northwestern Indians, June 15, 1789 7132
- 3. Chief Cornplanter or John Abeel, Big Tree, and Half-Town (Seneca), Letter to President Washington, December 1, 1790 9134
- 4. President Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, February 27, 1803 15140
- 5. Cherokee Women Petition, May 2, 1817 18143
- 6. Treaty with the Cherokee, July 8, 1817 20145
- 7. Statement of Menominees Concerning Treaties Ceding Lands in Wisconsin to the Indians of New York, 1824 27152
- 8. President Monroe, Message on Indian Removal, January 27, 1825 28153
- 9. Secretary of War John Eaton on Cherokee Removal, April 18, 1829 30155
- 10. President Jackson on Indian Removal, April 18, 1829 34159
- Chapter 2 Rhetoric of Removal, 1829-1830 39164
- 11. President Jackson on Indian Removal, December 8, 1829 41166
- 12. Catherine Beecher, Circular: Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the U. States, December 25, 1829 44169
- 13. Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan Territory, Removal of the Indians, January 1830 46171
- 14. Senator Hugh White (Tennessee), Bill from Committee on Indian Affairs, February 22, 1830 51176
- 15. Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen (New Jersey), against Indian Removal, April 9, 1830 53178
- 16. Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830 58183
- 17. Elias Boudinot (Cherokee), Editorial, Cherokee Phoenix, June 19, 1830 59184
- 18. President Jackson to John Pitchlynn, August 5, 1830 61186
- Chapter 3 Removals, 1830-1836 63188
- 19. Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, Choctaw, September 27, 1830 65190
- 20. President Jackson State of the Union Address, December 6, 1830 801105
- 21. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Elbert Herring Describes Removal as Humane, November 8, 1831 831108
- 22. Chief George Harkins (Choctaw), A Choctaw Farewell, February 1832 841109
- 23. U.S. Supreme Court, Worcester v. Georgia, March 3, 1832 871112
- 24. Treaty with the Seminole, 1833 1061131
- 25. David Crockett to Charles Schultz, December 25, 1834 1081133
- 26. President Jackson on Indian Removal, December 7, 1835 1091134
- 27. Chickasaw Chiefs, Letter to Andrew Jackson, December 24, 1835 1121137
- 28. Treaty of New Echota, December 29, 1835 1171142
- 29. Lieutenant J. T. Sprague, Removed Creeks Travel West, 1836 1301155
- 30. Lieutenant J. Van Horne, Journal of a Party of Seminole Indians Removal, April 11-June 6, 1836 1441169
- Chapter 4 Ethnic Cleansing, 1836-1844 1531178
- 31. Memorial of Protest of the Cherokee Nation, June 22, 1836 1561181
- 32. General John Wool, Cherokee Are Urged to Comply, March 22, 1837 1661191
- 33. Lieutenant Edwards Deas, Journal of Occurrences on the Route of a Party of Emigrating Creek Indians, May 25-June 5, 1837 1681193
- 34. Reverend Daniel S. Butrick, Removal Journal, May 26-July 20, 1838 1731198
- 35. Congressman Joshua Giddings, Slavery, and the Seminal War, February 9, 1841 1881213
- 36. Tonawanda Seneca Clan Mothers' Support of Chiefs' Efforts to Protest Treaty of Buffalo Creek of 1838, March 14, 1841 1891214
- 37. Coacooche (Seminole), Surrender of a Seminole Band, July 4, 1841 1901215
- 38. Tonawanda Chiefs' Advertisement Asking the Non-Indians of Western New York Not to Purchase Reservation Lands from the Ogden Land Company, Spirit of the Times, June 19, 1844 1911216
- Chapter 5 Responses to Removal, 1854-1879 1951220
- 39. Chief Seattle's Treaty Oration, 1854 1981223
- 40. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ely Parker (Seneca), Letter of General Ulysses Grant, January 24, 1864 2011226
- 41. Captain Soules's Letter to Major Ned Wynkoop, December 14, 1864 2051230
- 42. Lieutenant Joseph Cramer, Letter to Major Wynkoop, December 19, 1864 2071232
- 43. Palaneapope (Yankton Sioux), How the Indians Are Victimized by Government Agents and Soldiers, August 1865 2081233
- 44. Little Hill (Winnebago), The Condition of the Winnebago Indians of Nebraska, October 3, 1865 2101235
- 45. Blackfoot (Crow), Testimony about the White Man's Promises and Intentions, August 11, 1873 2111236
- 46. Chief Joseph or Hinmahtooyahlatkekt (Nez Perce), The Fate of the Nez Perces Tribe, April 1879 2151240
- 47. Hairy Bear (Ponca), The Killing of Big Snake, a Ponca Chief, October 31, 1879 2281253
- Chapter 6 Who Owns the Land? 1891-1932 2311256
- 48. Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Sioux), Keeping Treaties, Life of Sitting Bull, 1891 2341259
- 49. D.W.C. Duncan (Cherokee), How Allotment Impoverishes the Indians: Testimony before a Senate Committee, November 1906 2351260
- 50. Geronimo (Apache), A Prisoner of War, His Own Story, 1906 2361261
- 51. Cherokee Freedmen, We Can Establish Our Rights, 1913 2471272
- 52. WPA Interview of Kate Rackleff, Daughter of Cherokee Trail of Tears Survivor Rebecca Neugin (Cherokee), Recollections of Removal, 1937 2491274
- Bibliography 2551280
- Index 2591284