The Cherokee Removal:
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings

ONLINE RESOURCES

“Cherokee Removal.” New Georgia Encyclopedia.
http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2722&sug=y/

“Georgia Info: Trail of Tears.” Carl Vinson Institute of Government
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/trailtea.htm

VERTICAL FILES

General Information-

Cherokee Removal:

Relevant folders include: Cherokee Indians (1-4), Cherokee Removal Forts

Georgia Biography-

Relevant folders include: Elias Cornelius Boudinot, Wilson Lumpkin, John Ross

PRIMARY SOURCES

Boudinot, Elias. Documents in Relation to the Validity of the Cherokee Treaty of 1835...Letters and other Papers Relating to Cherokee Affairs: Being a Reply to Sundry Publications Authorized by John Ross. Washington: Blair & Rives, 1838.
E99 .C5 B7

Byers, Ann. The Trail of Tears: A Primary Source History of the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation. New York: Rosen Pub., 2004.
E99 .C5 B94 2004

Douthat, James L. Cherokee Ration Books, 1836, 1837, 1838: New Echota. Signal Mountain: Mountain Press, 1999.
E99 .C5 D68 1999

Georgia. General Assembly. Report of the Committee to whom was referred so much of the Governor's Message, as Relates to the Enforcement of the Law making it Penal, under certain restrictions, for white persons to reside within the limits of the Cherokee Nation. Milledgeville: Office of the Federal Union, 1832.
E99 .C5 G3

Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick. New Echota Letters, edited by Jack Frederick Kilpatrick and Anna Kilpatrick. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1968.
E99 .C5 K47

Lumpkin, Wilson. The Removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia, 1827-1841. New York: A.M. Kelley, 1971.
E99 .C5 L9 1971

Noland, C.F.M. Noland's Cherokee Diary: A U.S. Soldier's Story from inside the Cherokee Nation. Spartanburg: Reprint Co., 1990
E99 .C5 N666 1990

Rogers, John. Memorial of John Rogers, Principal Chief, and James Carey and Thomas L. Rodgers, Chiefs and Head Men: Being Members of a Committee on Behalf of the Cherokee Old Settlers West of the Mississippi, for Themselves and their People. Washington: Blair & Rives, 1844.
E99 .C5 R590

Ross, John. The Papers of Chief John Ross. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
E99 .C5 R82 1985

Rozema, Vicki. Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East. Winston-Salem: J.F. Blair, 2002.
E99 .C5 C6525 2002

Tyner, James W. Those Who Cried: The 16,000: a Record of the Individual Cherokees Listed in the United States Official Census of the Cherokee Nation Conducted in 1835. Chi-ga-u Inc., 1974.
E99 .C5 T98

United States. War Dept. Removal of the Cherokees: Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting copies of the Correspondence between the War Department and Major General Scott, in Relation to the Removal of the Cherokees. Washington: T. Allen, 1838.
E99 .C5 U528 1838

SECONDARY SOURCES

Anderson, William L. Cherokee Removal: Before and After. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
E99 .C5 C6523 1991

Brown, John P. Old Frontiers. New York: Arno Press, 1971.
E99 .C5 B84

Carter, Samuel. Cherokee Sunset: A Nation Betrayed: A Narrative of Travail and Triumph, Persecution and Exile. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976.
E99 .C5 C24

Conley, Robert J. The Cherokee Nation: A History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
E99 .C5 C716 2005

Davis, Kenneth Penn. Ousting the Cherokees from Georgia. Thesis, Georgia State College, 1968.
E99 .C5 D32

Dickson, John Lois. The Judicial History of the Cherokee Nation from 1721 to 1835. Thesis, University of Oklahoma, 1964.
E99 .C5 D5

Eaton, Rachel Caroline. John Ross and the Cherokee Indians. Menasha: George Banta Publishing, 1914.
E99 .C5 E141

Evarts, Jeremiah. Cherokee Removal: the "William Penn" Essays and other Writings. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.
E99 .C5 E88 1981

Filler, Louis. The Removal of the Cherokee Nation: Manifest Destiny or National Dishonor? Huntington: R.E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1977
E99 .C5 F5 1977

Fleischmann, Glen. The Cherokee Removal, 1838; An Entire Indian Nation is Forced out of its Homeland. New York: Watts, 1971.
E99 .C5 F68

Gabriel, Ralph Henry. Elias Boudinot, Cherokee, & his America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941.
E99 .C5 G118

Garrison, Tim Alan. The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002.
KF8228 .C5 G37 2002

Guttman, Allen. States' Rights and Indian Removal: The Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1965.
E99 .C5 G92

King, Duane H. The Cherokee Indian Nation: A Troubled History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979.
E99 .C5 C414

Kleit, David Harlan. "We Wanted the Land": The Cherokee Country During the Era of Removal and Resettlement. Thesis, Duke University, 2002.
E99 .C5 K54 2002a

Landini, Ann Lackey. The Cherokee Phoenix: The Voice of the Cherokee Nation, 1828-1834. Thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1990.
E99 .C5 L26 1990a

Malone, Henry Thompson. A Social History of the Eastern Cherokee Indians from the Revolution to Removal. Thesis, Emory University, 1952.
E99 .C5 M2

Malone, Henry Thompson. Cherokees of the Old South; A People in Transition. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1956.
E99 .C5 M2

McFarland, Philip John. The Removal of the Cherokee Indians from the State of Georgia, 1824-1835: An Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies. Thesis, Stanford University, 1973.
E99 .C5 M160

McLoughlin, William G. After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
E99 .C5 M388 1993

Moulton, Gary E. John Ross, Cherokee Chief. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
E99 .C5 R825

Parker, Thomas Valentine. The Relations of the United States Government with the Cherokee Tribe of Indians. Thesis, New York University, 1905.
E99 .C5 P320

Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Editor, the Writings of Elias Boudinot. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
E99 .C5 B735 1996

Perdue, Theda and Michael D. Green. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. New York: Viking, 2007.
E99 .C5 P3933 2007

Perdue, Theda and Michael D. Green. The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 2005.
E99 .C5 C54 2005

Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
E99 .C5 P3934 1998

Royce, Charles C. The Cherokee Nation of Indians. Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., 1975.
E99 .C5 R850

Strickland, Rennard. Fire and the Spirits: Cherokee Law from Clan to Court. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.
KF8228 .C505 S7

Strickland, William Murrell. The Rhetoric of Cherokee Indian Removal from Georgia, 1828-1832. Thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1975.
E99 .C5 S890

Warren, Mary B. and Eve B. Weeks. Whites Among the Cherokees: Georgia 1828-1838. Danielsville: Heritage Papers, 1987.
E99 .C5 W4950 1987

UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

All UGA theses and dissertations require prior notice of interest in order to retrieve from the repository, and, like all works in the Georgia Room, cannot be checked out.

Crutchfield, Lisa Laurel. From Shoes and Feathers to Cash and Power: The Transformation of the Cherokee Annuity System and its Role in the Emergence of Cherokee Nationalism, 1791-1835. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1995.
LXC15 1995 .C957

Perdue, Theda. Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1974.
LXC16 1976 .P433

Vipperman, Carl J. Wilson Lumpkin and the Cherokee Removal. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1961.
LXC15 1961 .V8

SELECTED GEORGIA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY ARTICLES

F281 .G352

Breyer, Stephen. "The Cherokee Indians and the Supreme Court." Georgia Historical Quarterly 87 (2003):

Flanagan, Sharon. "The Georgia Cherokees Who Remained: Race, Status, and Property in the Chattahoochee Community." Georgia Historical Quarterly 73 (1989): 584.

McLoughlin, William G. "Georgia's Role in Instigating Compulsory Indian Removal." Georgia Historical Quarterly 70 (1986): 605.

Malone, Henry T. "The Cherokee Phoenix: Supreme Expression of Cherokee Nationalism." Georgia Historical Quarterly 34 (1952): 163.

Morris, Michael. "Georgia and the Conversation over Indian Removal." Georgia Historical Quarterly 91 (2007): 403.

Perdue, Theda. "The Conflict Within: The Cherokee Power Structure and Removal." Georgia Historical Quarterly 73 (1989): 467.

Perdue, Theda. "Traditionalism in the Cherokee Nation: Resistance to the Constitution of 1827." Georgia Historical Quarterly 66 (1982): 159.

Satz, Ronald N. "The Cherokee Trail of Tears: A Sesquicentennial Perspective." Georgia Historical Quarterly 73 (1989): 431.

Vipperman, Carl J. "The Bungled Treaty of New Echota: The Failure of Cherokee Removal, 1836-1838." Georgia Historical Quartelry 73 (1989):

Vipperman, Carl J. "The 'Particular Mission' of Wilson Lumpkin." Georgia Historical Quarterly 66 (1982):

Williams, H. David. "Gambling Away the Inheritance: The Cherokee Nation and Georgia's Gold and Land Lotteries of 1832-1833." Georgia Historical Quarterly 73 (1989): 519.

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