Annotated Bibliographies

Anderson, William. Cherokee Removal: Before and After. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1991. Print.
The book Cherokee Removal: Before and After, by William Anderson, focused on Indian Removal and its affect on the Cherokee Tribe. The book uses maps, and excerpts from Native Americans’ recollections to support the claims. The two chapters that I mainly looked at for helpful information were the “Rhetoric Versus Reality: The Indian Policy of Andrew Jackson” chapter and the “The Demography of the Trail of Tears Period” chapter. The chapter about the Trail of Tears gave me information about the effects of Indian Removal and gave me facts about the trail to Oklahoma. The main claim of the chapter on Andrew Jackson was on how his rhetoric on Indian Removal was persuasive and did not reflect later actions against the tribes. The chapter on the Trail of Tears stated that the forceful removal of the Cherokee tribe went against what Andrew Jackson promised and the tribe was greatly affected and damaged by the event.

Black, Jason Edward. "Native Resistive Rhetoric and the Decolonization of American Indian Removal Discourse." 66-88. 2009. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Apr. 2010.
The article “Native Resistive Rhetoric and the Decolonization of American Indian Removal Discourse” by Jason Black focuses on the broken promises and hypocrisies of the U.S. government and its policies on Indian Removal. It also discusses the Native Americans’ reactions to the removal at the time. The article uses excerpts from journals and interviews of Native Americans and Congressmen to support the claim of the hypocrisies of the Indian Removal policy. This article helped me with the idea that Andrew Jackson’s promises did not come through the policy years later.

Black, Jason Edward. "Remembrances of Removal: Native Resistance to Allotment and the Unmasking of Paternal Benevolence." Southern Communication Journal 72.2 (2007): 185-203. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Apr. 2010.
The article, "Remembrances of Removal: Native Resistance to Allotment and the Unmasking of Paternal Benevolence” by Jason Black discussed how the Indian Removal act was the precursor to the anger built up in the Native Americans after the passing of the Dawes Act. The Indian Removal Act forced Native Americans to move west to Oklahoma. After some years, the Dawes Act passed, allowing the government to reduce the sizes of reservations in order to make room for westward expansion. The article argues that resentment from the Native Americans toward the government was building up after the Indian Removal Act then erupted after the Dawes Act and that the Indian Removal Act gave the government the idea of authority over the Native American community. The author uses statements from Native Americans who experienced the effects of both acts to get his point across. He also analyzes petitions and speeches by Native Americans after the passing of the Dawes Act to show the resistance that grew through the community. This article shows one of the consequences of the Indian Removal Act and Jackson’s policies, the Dawes Act.

Cave, Alfred A. "Abuse of Power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830." Historian 65.6 (2003): 1330-1353. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Apr. 2010
“Abuse of Power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830” by Alfred Caved discusses how there were discrepancies between the law and Andrew Jackson’s administration’s actions. The Indian Removal Act specified that Native Americans would be moved voluntarily to the west and that no one would be forced to do anything by the United States Government. Cave shows evidence from prior treaties with the United States Government and the Native American tribes and how Jackson’s actions violated these treaties. Cave also states how congressmen who supported Jackson tried to reassure the public that Native Americans would not be forced out of their homes. This research article helps be understand the rhetoric of the Indian Removal act so then I can compare it with Jackson’s persuasive message to congress about the act.

Meyers, Jason. "No Idle Past: Uses of History in the 1830 Indian Removal Debates." Historian 63.1 (2000): 53. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Apr. 2010.
As it says in the title, the article, “No Idle Past: Uses of History in the 1830 Indian Removal Debates” discusses the debates held in 1830 about the Indian Removal Act in Congress and how rhetoric of events in history skewed the truth. The author uses quotes from congressmen at the time and excerpts from the Indian Removal Act itself to show the discrepancies and how they got away with it through the debating of the bill. This article states how the debate for the bill argued that the Indian Removal act was for the benefit and safety of the Native Americans, as Andrew Jackson argued later in the year. The main claim of this article is that debaters manipulated facts from history for their argument for the Indian Removal. This article helped me understand how rhetoric was used in Congress and by President Andrew Jackson to make this policy seem as though it would greatly benefit the Native Americans.