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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Indian Removal"”.
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The Origins and Development of the Indian Removal Policy
… men, problems and events which made up American Indian policy from 1800 to 1840. A primary objective is to trace the origins and mark the major developments of the Federal Government's policy of removing Indian tribes to the western side of the Mississippi River. Andrew Jackson's role in these …
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Cherokee Indian Removal: The Treaty of New Echota and General Winfield Scott.
… Echota was signed by a small group of Cherokee Indians and provided for the removal of the Cherokees from their lands in the southeastern United States. This treaty was secured by dishonest means and, despite the efforts of Chief John Ross to prevent the removal of the Cherokees from their …
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An analysis of historic period Chickasaw settlement patterns
… Specifically, my thesis examines the Chickasaw Indian settlement patterns in northeast Mississippi from late prehistory through Indian removal in the early nineteenth century. It is suggested that the changes and social reorganization prompted by the contact between European and aboriginal …
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Time and Nationhood: The United States and Indigenous Nations
… rhetoric and discourse in documents of the Indian Removal debate of the late 1820s and early 1830s. The national narratives of both the United States and Cherokee nation are found to be inherently temporal. This study analyzes four key documents of the Removal debate in the form of …
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The Role of the Frontier Indian Agent : Joseph Montfort Street, 1827-1840
The problem. The role of the frontier Indian agent is not always adequately understood. Acting as an intermediary between the federal government and the Indians, the agent's position was unique. Joseph Montfort Street was an Indian agent from 1827 to 1840. An examination of Street's unusually long …
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“The Amazing Iroquois”: Haudenosaunee History in Myth and Memory, 1776–1955
… of the Iroquois as the “most studied” Indian nation and that they, as the debunked Iroquois Influence Thesis claimed, influenced the structure and scope of the U.S. Constitution. My study examines the lives of four related (by blood and by claim) Seneca leaders: Red Jacket, Ely S. …
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From Native to Nation: Copway’s American Indian Newspaper and Formation of American Nationalism
… argues that the publication of Copway’s American Indian (1851) challenges accepted representations of nineteenth-century American Native peoples by countering popular stereotypes. Interrogating a multiplicity of cultural artifacts at the moment of their meeting and investigating the friction …
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Little short of national murder: Forced migration and the making of diasporas in the Atlantic world, 1745--1865
<p>Removal---or, the exile and forced migration of marginalized cultural and racial groups from one region of the British Empire and, later, the United States, to another less volatile region---emerged as a key tool in the construction of the Anglo-American Atlantic World. British officials used …
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Slavery, race, and nation in Indian Territory, 1830-1866
… the rapid changes that the southeastern American Indian groups sometimes referred to as “The Five Civilized Tribes” experienced in the nineteenth century, especially the middle third of that century; in other words, the time period between Indian Removal and the end of the U. S. Civil War. …
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This Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery
… politicians who characterized agreement with Indians on any grounds as inimical to national honor, left every treaty stillborn. This slaveholder influence on the war effort was largely invisible to the rest of the country. In this work's second focus, I detail the war's national context, …
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The face of empire: the cultural production of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and California, 1904–1916
… scientific racism to justify white supremacy, Indian removal, and imperial expansion, both ""at home"" in the U.S. West and ""abroad"" in the PCZ, as imperial boundaries between ""the domestic"" and ""the foreign"" blurred. Fair exhibits and publications celebrated hydraulic engineering in both …
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An examination of the attitudes and policies of Andrew Jackson concerning the American Indian
… of Andrew Jackson's attitude toward the American Indian and the effect of these attitudes on the shaping of official United states policy toward the Indians.</p><p>Jackson was born and raised on the frontier. There his prejudices were acquired and his personality was formed. Chapter I deals with …
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Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840
In the two decades prior to Cherokee Removal, Georgians discussed removal as a way for the state to create and maintain order, a cluster of ideas that revolved around a social system that championed white superiority, a political system that adhered to republican thinking, and a legal system that …