essay

Chaos in the Indian country: the Cherokee Nation, 1828-35

Cherokee Indian nation :a troubled historyKnoxvillePublished In 1979 • Pages: 129-147

By: Davis, Kenneth Penn.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this document Davis discusses four major factors which combined in 1828 to bring the removal of the Eastern Cherokee into open and heated debate: the publication of the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper in which issues of removal were discussed; the discovery of gold within Indian territory making Cherokee land most desirable to non-Indians; the election of Andrew Jackson as president who favored the removal; and the incorporation by the state of Georgia of Cherokee lands as counties of the state. Each of these factors is discussed in some detail in this work.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Internal migration
External migration
History
Press
Deliberative councils
External relations
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Cherokee
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2000
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Eastern Woodlands
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
essay
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Historian
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
4: Excellent Secondary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Delores Walters ; 1988: John Beierle ; 2006
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1828-1835
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Georgia and North Carolina, United States
NotesAdditional notes
Kenneth Penn Davis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-147)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
78013222
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Cherokee Indians