The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations

by Tim Alan Garrison

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This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous period, argues Tim Alan Garrison, is too often molded around the towering personalities of the Indian removal debate, including President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee leader John Ross, and United States Supreme Court Justice John Marshall. This common view minimizes the impact...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0820334170

ISBN13:9780820334172

Release Date:November 2009

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

19th Century Americas History Law Legal History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Native American Native American Studies Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Textbooks World

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