Cherokee “Improvements” and the Removal Debate

In an era that saw forced or coerced removals of many indigenous Americans from their homelands, the Cherokees’ was the only case to gain a large measure of white support. Ralph Waldo Emerson, for example, although generally unconcerned over the fate of indigenous peoples, wrote a letter of protest...

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Published inAmerican Georgics p. 122
Main Author TIMOTHY SWEET
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 01.01.2011
Subjects
Agricultural geography
Agricultural land
Agricultural sciences
Agriculture
Agronomy
Anthropology
Applied ecology
Behavioral sciences
Big game hunting
Biological sciences
Crops
Deer hunting
Ecology
Environmental management
Ethnic groups
Ethnology
Habitats
Human behavior
Human geography
Human populations
Hunting
Hunting grounds
Land improvement
Land management
Land use
Men
Natural resource management
Persons
Population ecology
Population studies
Social sciences
Sustainable agriculture
Synecology
White people
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Summary:In an era that saw forced or coerced removals of many indigenous Americans from their homelands, the Cherokees’ was the only case to gain a large measure of white support. Ralph Waldo Emerson, for example, although generally unconcerned over the fate of indigenous peoples, wrote a letter of protest to President Martin Van Buren asking, “Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?”¹ A key to the Cherokees’ enlistment of white support was their ability to tap into an American discourse that identified the rural as a site, source, and refuge of civic virtue. This discourse of
ISBN:0812236378
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