Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal: [2 Volumes], Volume 1

Daniel F. Littlefield, James W. Parins

Bloomsbury Academic, Jan 19, 2011 - History - 652 pages

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.

• Contains insightful information from 16 contributors
• Presents Georgia Laws in 1828 and 1830
• Provides a chronological timetable of Indian removal
• Includes an annotated bibliography of Indian removal to facilitate further research

Bibliographic information

• Title: Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal: [2 Volumes], Volume 1; Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal, Daniel F. Littlefield
• Editors: Daniel F. Littlefield, James W. Parins
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011
• ISBN: 0313360413, 9780313360411
• Length: 652 pages
• Subjects: History / Historiography; History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas; History / Reference; History / Social History; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies