Overview
In October 2015, the Michael C. Carlos Museum debuted "Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection," a major exhibit accompanied by four invited public lectures. Dr. Claudio Saunt's November 10, 2015, lecture explored Georgia's role in Indian Removal policies that expelled 100,000 people from the Southeast in the 1830s.
Presentation
About the Speaker
Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at the University of Georgia. He is currently working on a book on Indian removal. Previous books include West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Cover Image Attribution:
"View of posts and distances in the Cherokee Nation, to illustrate Major General Scott's operations in 1838," Letters of General Scott, 1838. National Archives, RG 75, Central Map File, Indian Territory, no. CA 96, NACP.Recommended Resources
Text Resources
Anderson, William L., ed. Cherokee Removal, Before and After. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
Garrison, Tim Alan. The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
Miles, Tiya. "'Circular Reasoning': Recentering Cherokee Women in the Antiremoval Campaigns." American Quarterly 61, no. 2 (2009): 221–243.
Perdue, Theda and Michael D. Green. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. New York: Viking, 2007.
Perdue, Theda and Michael D. Green, eds. The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 2005.
Wallace, Anthony J.C. Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.
Winn, William W. The Triumph of the Ecunna-Nuxulgee: Land Speculators, George M. Troup, and the Removal of the Creek Indians in Alabama and Georgia, 1825–1838. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2015.
Web
A Brief History of the Trail of Tears. Cherokee Nation. 2016. http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/TrailofTears/ABriefHistoryoftheTrailofTears.aspx.
The Emigration from Georgia (Trail of Tears). Cherokee Heritage Documentation Center. http://www.cherokeeregistry.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=290&Itemid=489.
Garrison, Tim Alan. "Cherokee Removal. "New Georgia Encyclopedia. The Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/cherokee-removal.
Primary Documents in American History: Indian Removal Act. The Library of Congress Virtual Services Digital Reference Section. November 5, 2015. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html.
Public Broadcasting Service. American Experience Series. We Shall Remain. Documentary, 2009. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/.
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Institution. http://www.nmai.si.edu/.
