The Destiny of Hope: The “Damned Mob” of Women Activist Writers and the Indian Removal by Carroll Clayton Savant

“…Therefore, when women turned to it to voice opposition to Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, they did so by embracing the traditionally-accepted methodology of the novel, but altering it through subversive language and plots to suit their critical needs. …”
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Removed to the Signifier: Utopia in Stephen Graham Jones’s The Bird Is Gone: A monograph Manifesto (2003) by Kristina Baudemann

“…Arguing that Jones foregrounds the utopian traits of US-American colonialism, specifically of Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal policy, I explore the conditions of a postcolonial—or rather decolonial—Indigenous-centered utopia. …”
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“Water, Water Everywhere”: Flows, Fate, and Transcendental Settlerism in Margaret Fuller's “Summer on the Lakes, in 1843” by Andrew Wildermuth

“…In this article I offer revisionist close readings of the first chapters of Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, where Margaret Fuller documents the beginning of a journey through the Great Lakes region during the era of ‘Indian removal’ and the US invasion and settling of lands further westward. …”
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Inter-marriage and <i>The Last of the Mohicans</i>, 1824-1992 by Anna Scannavini

“…What they all share, however, is the sense that a deeply human possibility of growth is lost with the Indian removal. In this sense, I conclude by comparing their work to Michael Mann’s 1992 The Last of the Mohicans to find that Mann’s approach is no great improvement on the ideology of the 1820s.…”
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BECOMING AMERICA : A HISTORY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY / by Henkin, David M., author 642444, McLennan, Rebecca M., 1967-, author 642445

Na’hjeNing’e’s Rivers Indigenous Maps, Diplomacy, and the Writing of Ioway Space by Frank Kelderman

“…This essay examines an indigenous map (1837) of the Missouri and Mississippi river valleys, which offers an alternative to the territorial mappings of US empire in the era of Indian removal. The map was presented by the Ioway delegate Na’hje Ning’e during an intertribal treaty council in Washington in 1837 and depicts the Ioway Nation’s historical occupation of large areas in the Mississippi River Valley. …”
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Beyond removal: Indians, states, and sovereignties in the American South, 1812-1860 by Dinwoodie, J

“…<p>In 1830, the US Congress passed the Indian Removal Act; within a decade, 65,000 of the South's original inhabitants had left the region. …”

Erosion and Culture by Luke Zimmerman

“…The United States has a history of forced relocation of indigenous groups. The 1830 Indian Removal Act forced five Native American tribes in the Southeast to move to what is now Oklahoma. …”
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