Cherokee People -- Early Contact with British Colonists -- United States "Civilization" Program -- Cherokee Culture Change -- Pressure for Removal -- Cherokee Resistance and Capitulation -- 1 Cherokee "Civilization" -- Becoming "Civilized" -- Young Wolf, Last Will and Testament, 1814 -- Cherokee Committee, Ruling on Young Wolf's Estate, 1824 -- A Cherokee View of "Civilization" -- John Ridge, Letter to Albert Gallatin, February 27, 1826 -- Christian Missions -- Elizabeth Taylor, Letter to Miss Abigail Parker, June 26, 1828 -- Sally M. Reece, Letter to Reverend Daniel Campbell, July 25, 1828 -- Nancy Reece, Letter to Reverend Fayette Shepherd, December 25, 1828 -- Quantifying Cherokee "Civilization" -- Census of 1835 -- Cherokee Constitution of 1827 -- Constitution of the Cherokee Nation: Formed by a Convention of Delegates from the Several Districts, at New Echota, July 1827 -- 2 Georgia Policy -- Georgia Laws -- Georgia State Assembly, Laws Extending Jurisdiction over the Cherokees, December 19, 1829 and December 22, 1830 -- Georgia and the Supreme Court -- United States Supreme Court, Worcester v. Georgia, March 1832 -- Dispossessing the Cherokees -- Memorial of Protest of the Cherokee Nation, June 22, 1836 -- White Intruders -- Zillah Haynie Brandon, Memoir, 1830-1838 -- 3 United States Policy -- In Defense of the Cherokees: The "William Penn" Essays -- William Penn [Jeremiah Evarts], A Brief View of the Present Relations between the Government and People of the United States and Indians within Our National Limits, November 1829 -- American Women Organize against Removal -- Catherine Beecher, Circular, Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the U. States, December 25, 1829 -- Lewis Cass Justifies Removal -- Lewis Cass, Removal of the Indians, January 1830 -- Congress Acts -- United States Congress, Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830 -- Andrew Jackson Applauds the Removal Act -- Andrew Jackson, State of the Union Address, December 6, 1830 -- 4 Cherokee Debate -- Women and Removal -- Cherokee Women, Petition, May 2, 1817 -- Cherokee Women, Petition, June 30, 1818 -- Cherokee Women, Petition, October 17, 1821 [1831?] -- Elias Boudinot's Editorials in the Cherokee Phoenix -- Elias Boudinot, Editorials in the Cherokee Phoenix, 1829, 1831 -- Treaty of New Echota -- Treaty with the Cherokees, 1835 -- Opposition Continues -- John Ross, Letter in Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, July 2, 1836 -- Treaty Party's Defense -- Elias Boudinot, Letters and Other Papers Relating to the Cherokee Affairs: Being a Reply to Sundry Publications of John Ross, 1837 -- 5 Trail of Tears -- Enrollment Memorial of Protest of the Cherokee Nation, June 22, 1836 -- Forced Removal -- Evan Jones, Letters, May-December 1838 -- Waiting to Cross the Mississippi -- George Hicks, Letter from the Trail of Tears, January 13, 1839 -- Removal through a Child's Eyes -- Rebecca Neugin, Recollections of Removal, 1932 -- Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation -- Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Journal, 1841 -- Removal 150 Years Later -- Wilma Mankiller, Reflections on Removal, 1993.
