Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal
[2 volumes]
Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., James W. Parins, Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., James W. Parins
- 652 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal
[2 volumes]
Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., James W. Parins, Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., James W. Parins
About This Book
This work is a comprehensive encyclopedia of Indian removal that accurately presents the removal process as a political, economic, and tribally complicit affair. In 1830, Andrew Jackson became the first U.S. president to implement removal of Native Americans with the passage of the Indian Removal Act. Less than a decade later, tens of thousands of Native AmericansâCherokee, Chickasaw, Muscogee-Creek, Seminole, and othersâwere forcibly moved from their tribal lands to enable settlement by Caucasians of European origin. Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal presents a realistic depiction of removal as a complicated process that was deeply affected by political, economic, and tribal factors, rather than the popular romanticized concept of American Indians being herded west by military troops through a trackless wilderness. This work is presented in two volumes. Volume One contains essays on subjects and people that are general in scope and arranged alphabetically by subject; Volume Two is dedicated to primary documents regarding Indian removal and examines specific information about political debates, Indian responses to removal policy, and removals of individual tribes.