Author : Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.
Release : 2011-01-19
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal [2 volumes] by : Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal [2 volumes] written by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.. This book was released on 2011-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Americans—Cherokee, Chickasaw, Muscogee-Creek, Seminole, and others—were 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.