History of American Indians and the United States
Cherokee Removal
Dr. Kane
mkane2@albany.edu Humanities 109 | MWF 9:20 - 10:15 AM
Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30
Social Science 60S
Wednesday, October 11
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- Locations paper Monday Oct 16
coming up
- Friday: legal basis for Cherokee removal & aftermath to 1860
- Monday: other cases of removal
- Wednesday/Friday: American Revolution & Northwest Indian War
today's class
- background to Cherokee Removal
- discussion of Perdue & Green
- finding research sources
- discussion of locations paper
where are we?
- Removal era 1800-1840
- Cherokee Removal - 1836-1839
- Extermination era 1840-1887
- Plains wars - 1848 - 1887/1918
- Dakota War - 1862
- US Civil War - 1860-1865
- Grant's Peace Policy - 1869
background 1763 - 1830
- Proclamation of 1763 - British Indian policy
- Treaty of Paris 1783 - end of American Revolution
- doctrine of conquest - basis of all US land ownership
- Missouri Compromise 1820 - westward spread of slavery
Missouri Compromise 1820
Cherokee Removal
what is a scholarly source?
- based on primary sources
- cites support for all sources and claims
- peer reviewed - verified by other experts
- google scholar :[
how do you know?
- author's credentials
- provides citations
- who's the publisher?
- who's the audience?
- why is the information presented?
why use scholarly vs. non-scholarly sources?
- scholarly: specific, sourced information
- scholarly: provides important background context
- non-scholarly: very recent information
- non-scholarly: very local information
- non-scholarly: what do people believe/how do people view an issue
locations discussion
- what time period is the major turning point in your region?
- how do your cases connect to one another?
- any similarities or differences with the Cherokee case?