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

by Tim Alan Garrison

Book Overview

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"