The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal

by Janet McAdams, Terra Trevor, HOBSON

The two-hundred-year-old myth of the "vanishing" American Indian still holds some credence in the American Southeast, the region from which tens of thousands of Indians were relocated after passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Yet, as the editors of this volume amply demonstrate, a significant Indian population remained behind after those massive relocations. The first anthology to focus on the literary work of Native Americans who trace their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806141360
• ISBN13: 9780806141367
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"