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- Andrew Jackson calls for Indian removal
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.3
- Excerpt from President Andrew Jackson's first inaugural address, 1829, in which he argued that American Indians should be removed west of the Mississippi. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: speech
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Kathryn Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.1
- In 1836, years of increasing tension between Cherokees in the southeastern U.S. and white settlers eager to encroach on Cherokee land culminated in the Treaty of New Echota, which called for the forcible removal of Cherokees to the western Indian Territory. Two years later, federal troops and state militias enforced the treaty, sending large groups of Indians west with inadequate supplies. Many died along the way. The forced removal of the Indians from their land has become known as the Trail of Tears.
- Format: article
- Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 1831
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.6
- When Georgia tried to subject the Cherokee to state law, they sued the state in federal court. The Supreme Court ruled against them in 1831, in this decision written by Chief Justice John Marshall. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: court decision
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
- Chief John Ross protests the Treaty of New Echota
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.7
- In this 1836 letter, Cherokee Chief John Ross urges Congress not to ratify the Treaty of New Echota, in which a small group of Cherokee men claiming to represent the Nation agreed to removal. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Kathryn Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- The Indian Removal Act of 1830
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.5
- Act of Congress, passed in 1830, authorizing President Andrew Jackson to transfer Eastern Indian tribes to the territories west of the Mississippi River. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: legislation
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Kathryn Walbert, L. Maren Wood, and David Walbert.
- The legend of Tsali
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.9
- The story of a Cherokee man who resisted removal and founded the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: legend
- A soldier recalls the Trail of Tears
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.8
- In this letter to his children, written on his eightieth birthday, Private John G. Burnett tells the story of the removal of the Cherokee to the West. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- "We have unexpectedly become civilized"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.4
- Letter from citizens of Turkey Town in the Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate, 1829, opposing relocation. The authors pointed out the irony that even after becoming "civilized" as white people had claimed to want, they were nevertheless being pushed off their land. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
