Format:
1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9798400641855
Series Statement:
Eyewitness to History
Content:
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. The Indian Removal Act transformed the Native North American continent and precipitated the development of a national identity based on a narrative of vanishing American Indians. This volume is a probing look into a chapter in American history that, while difficult, cannot be ignored. Sweeping in its coverage of history, it includes deeply personal accounts of American Indian removal from which readers may discern the degree to which the new national identity of the United States was influenced by bigotry and dependence on the corporate economy. The book is organized into six sections that collectively provide the full scope of American Indian removal policies that began with the founding of the United States. The sections trace the evolution of federal government policies; the rhetoric of Indian removal in public debates; removal experiences; ethnic cleansing through overtly racist laws; responses to removals; and the question that reigned in the aftermath: Who owned the land? The chronological organization allows readers both to approach Indian removal through the framework of ongoing injustice in the colonial system that existed for the first 150 years of the United States, from the 1770s through the 1920s, and to draw connections from this legacy to the seizures of Indian lands and resources that continue today
Note:
Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents Historical Introduction Chronology Chapter 1 Evolution of Federal Government Policies, 1778-1829 1. Treaty of Fort Pitt (Delaware), September 17, 1778 2. Secretary of War Henry Knox, Report on the Northwestern Indians, June 15, 1789 3. Chief Cornplanter or John Abeel, Big Tree, and Half-Town (Seneca), Letter to President Washington, December 1, 1790 4. President Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, February 27, 1803 5. Cherokee Women Petition, May 2, 1817 6. Treaty with the Cherokee, July 8, 1817 7. Statement of Menominees Concerning Treaties Ceding Lands in Wisconsin to the Indians of New York, 1824 8. President Monroe, Message on Indian Removal, January 27, 1825 9. Secretary of War John Eaton on Cherokee Removal, April 18, 1829 10. President Jackson on Indian Removal, April 18, 1829 Chapter 2 Rhetoric of Removal, 1829-1830 11. President Jackson on Indian Removal, December 8, 1829 12. Catherine Beecher, Circular: Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the U. States, December 25, 1829 13. Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan Territory, Removal of the Indians, January 1830 14. Senator Hugh White (Tennessee), Bill from Committee on Indian Affairs, February 22, 1830 15. Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen (New Jersey), against Indian Removal, April 9, 1830 16. Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830 17. Elias Boudinot (Cherokee), Editorial, Cherokee Phoenix, June 19, 1830 18. President Jackson to John Pitchlynn, August 5, 1830 Chapter 3 Removals, 1830-1836 19. Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, Choctaw, September 27, 1830 20. President Jackson State of the Union Address, December 6, 1830 21. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Elbert Herring Describes Removal as Humane, November 8, 1831 22. Chief George Harkins (Choctaw), A Choctaw Farewell, February 1832 23. U.S. Supreme Court, Worcester v. Georgia, March 3, 1832 24. Treaty with the Seminole, 1833 25. David Crockett to Charles Schultz, December 25, 1834 26. President Jackson on Indian Removal, December 7, 1835 27. Chickasaw Chiefs, Letter to Andrew Jackson, December 24, 1835 28. Treaty of New Echota, December 29, 1835 29. Lieutenant J. T. Sprague, Removed Creeks Travel West, 1836 30. Lieutenant J. Van Horne, Journal of a Party of Seminole Indians Removal, April 11-June 6, 1836 Chapter 4 Ethnic Cleansing, 1836-1844 31. Memorial of Protest of the Cherokee Nation, June 22, 1836 32. General John Wool, Cherokee Are Urged to Comply, March 22, 1837 33. Lieutenant Edwards Deas, Journal of Occurrences on the Route of a Party of Emigrating Creek Indians, May 25-June 5, 1837 34. Reverend Daniel S. Butrick, Removal Journal, May 26-July 20, 1838 35. Congressman Joshua Giddings, Slavery, and the Seminal War, February 9, 1841 36. Tonawanda Seneca Clan Mothers' Support of Chiefs' Efforts to Protest Treaty of Buffalo Creek of 1838, March 14, 1841 37. Coacooche (Seminole), Surrender of a Seminole Band, July 4, 1841 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 Chapter 5 Responses to Removal, 1854-1879 39. Chief Seattle's Treaty Oration, 1854 40. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ely Parker (Seneca), Letter of General Ulysses Grant, January 24, 1864 41. Captain Soules's Letter to Major Ned Wynkoop, December 14, 1864 42. Lieutenant Joseph Cramer, Letter to Major Wynkoop, December 19, 1864 43. Palaneapope (Yankton Sioux), How the Indians Are Victimized by Government Agents and Soldiers, August 1865 44. Little Hill (Winnebago), The Condition of the Winnebago Indians of Nebraska, October 3, 1865 45. Blackfoot (Crow), Testimony about the White Man's Promises and Intentions, August 11, 1873 46. Chief Joseph or Hinmahtooyahlatkekt (Nez Perce), The Fate of the Nez Perces Tribe, April 1879 47. Hairy Bear (Ponca), The Killing of Big Snake, a Ponca Chief, October 31, 1879 Chapter 6 Who Owns the Land? 1891-1932 48. Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Sioux), Keeping Treaties, Life of Sitting Bull, 1891 49. D.W.C. Duncan (Cherokee), How Allotment Impoverishes the Indians: Testimony before a Senate Committee, November 1906 50. Geronimo (Apache), A Prisoner of War, His Own Story, 1906 51. Cherokee Freedmen, We Can Establish Our Rights, 1913 52. WPA Interview of Kate Rackleff, Daughter of Cherokee Trail of Tears Survivor Rebecca Neugin (Cherokee), Recollections of Removal, 1937 Bibliography Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781440854194
Additional Edition:
ISBN 144085419X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781440854200
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1440854203
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9798400641855
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