Jacksonland: A Great American Land Grab (45 page)

“were as religious, moral, high-minded a race of men who ever lived”
Brooks,
History of Georgia
, pp. 225–26.

many Indians viewed him as
“the devil”
The video, narrated by Martin Sheen, was excerpted from
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency
, a documentary released on DVD in 2008, and viewed at the Hermitage, August 17, 2013.

formal apology for the Trail of Tears
Public Law 111-118 describes “years of official depredations, ill-conceived policies, and the breaking of covenants by the Federal Government regarding Indian tribes,” and apologizes for “the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect,” p. 45.

“paternalist”
Wilentz,
Rise of American Democracy,
p. 324.

“harried without ruth”
Roosevelt,
Winning of the West
, vol. 4,
p. 53.

the
“race-importance” of the work
Ibid.
,
p.
52.

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Anderson, William, et al., eds.
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Andrew, John III.
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Austill, Margaret Eades. “Memories of Journeying through Creek Country and of Childhood in Clarke County, 1811–1814.”
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.

Barrett, John S., ed. Correspondence of Andrew Jackson. 7 vols. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute, 1926–35.

Beecher, Catharine.
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Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, 1837.

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Clay, Henry.
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———.
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Evarts, Jeremiah, ed.
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Grimké, Angelina.
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Hopkins, James F., et al., eds.
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.
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:
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———.
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Public Documents

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Marshall, John, et al.
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Troup, George M.
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———. “American Indians and Alaska Natives,” based on 2010 census data. http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/special/AIANWall2010/AIAN_US_2010.pdf.

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Tennessee State Library and Archives

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Brown, John P.
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Cave, Alfred A.
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Clary, David A.
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Cole, Donald B.
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———, ed.
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Gedney, Matt.
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———.
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