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Indian removal;, the emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians

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The Civilization of the American Indian 2

the emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians

"This book is the account of the removal of the southern Indians. In the North weaker and more primitive tribes yielded with comparatively small resistance to the power and chicane of the white man. A different situation in the southern states called into requisition different methods and resulted in a more complicated story. At least four of the tribes of southern Indians had so far advanced in learning and culture as to establish themselves permanently on the soil, build homes and farms, cultivate the land, raise herds and varied crops, including cotton which they carded, spun, and wove into cloth with which they clothed themselves. They laid out roads, built mills, engaged in commerce, and sent their children to schools conducted by the missionaries ... Naturally, a people of such achievements, aware of their rights under prior possession and treaty guarantees with the national government, stubbornly resisted the aggressions of the whites. The forcible uprooting and expulsion of sixty thousand such people over a period of more than a decade, developed a story without parallel in the history of this country and resulted in a vast accumulation of manuscript material from which this account is mainly written"--Preface

pt. 1. Choctaw removal -- The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek -- Indians explore the western country -- Choctaw emigration begins -- Suffering of the emigrants -- Emigration resumed in 1832 -- Experiences on the march -- Condition of the immigrants -- pt. 2. Creek removal. Efforts to remove Creek Indians from Alabama -- An emigrating party in 1834 -- Frauds on the Creek Indians -- The Creek "war" of 1836 -- Wholesale removal of the Creeks by force -- A journal of events -- Creek suffering, removal completed -- pt. 3. Chickasaw removal. The Chickasaw Treaty of Pontotoc -- Migration of the Chickasaw Indians -- Chickasaw settlements in the west -- pt. 4. Cherokee removal. Oppression of the Cherokee Indians -- Cherokee Indians defend their tribal existence -- A tragic migration -- The Schermerhorn "Treaty", last stand of the Cherokee -- March of the broken spirited -- A captive nation -- The Trail of Tears -- pt. 5. Seminole removal. The Seminole Indians -- The second Seminole war -- The fate of Holahte Emathla -- Hunting the Seminole Indians out of the swamps -- The capture of Osceola -- Seminole captives deported -- The surrender of Pascofa