The legal ideology of removal
Subtitle: the southern judiciary and the sovereignty of Native American nations
By: Tim Alan Garrison.
Series: Studies in the legal history of the South
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Southern States -- History; Cherokee Indians -- Relocation -- History; Trail of Tears, 1838; State rights; Sovereignty
Description: "This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous period, argues Tim Alan Garrison, is too often molded around the towering personalities of the Indian removal debate, including President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee leader John Ross, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall.

This common view minimizes the impact on Indian sovereignty of some little-known legal cases at the state level." "Readers will gain a broader perspective on the racial views of the southern legal elite and on the logical inconsistencies of southern law and politics during this formative period of anti-Indian and proslavery ideologies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-312) and index.