The Cherokee removal: a brief history with documents

Introduction: the Cherokees and U.S. Indian policy

Cherokee "civilization: becoming "civilized"

A Cherokee view of "civilization"

Christian missions

Quantifying Cherokee "civilization"

Georgia policy: the Georgia laws

Georgia and the Supreme court

Dispossessing the Cherokees

White intruders

United States policy: in defense of the Cherokees: the "William Penn" essays

Lewis Cass justifies removal

Congress acts

Andrew Jackson applauds the Removal Act

The Cherokee debate: women and removal

Elias Boudinot's editorials in the Cherokee Phoenix

The Treaty of New Echota

The opposition continues

The treaty party's defense

The trail of tears: enrollment

Forced removal

Removal through a child's eyes

Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation.