Indian Removal and the Politics of Westward Expansion
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Overview Texts:
Indian Removal 1814-1858
Seminole Tribe Writes on Resistance and Removal
The Effects of Removal on American Indian Tribes
Cherokee Relations with US Government Before Removal
Cherokee Nation Website: History of the Trail of Tears
Muscogee (Creek) Nation Website
Indian Removal: A Timeline
Jacksonian Democracy: Indian Removal
US Department of State: Indian Treaty and Removal Act of 1830
Timeline of the American West 1830-1840
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers: Relocated & Removed Tribal Nations to Indian Territory (includes overview and maps)
Federal Indian Policy 1492 to Present

Images:
"Spirit of the Frontier" by John Gast (1872)
"The Trail of Tears" by Robert Lindneux (1942)
Map of Indian Territory (1830)

Primary Sources:
Primary source quotes on Indian Removal, including Presidents Monroe and Jackson
Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
Cherokee letter protesting the Treaty of New Echota
Treaty of New Etocha (Cherokee)
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties (sorted by tribe or year)
Henry Clay and his position on the humane treatment of American Indians

Connections to Literature:
Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears by Robert J. Conley
LongWalker's Journey: A Novel of the Choctaw Trail of Tears by Beatrice O. Harrell
The Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy by Joseph Bruchac

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