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Indian Removal, 1813-1903

Here are entered works on the forced removal of American Indians to reservations by the U.S. government, generally considered to have begun around 1813, continued through the 19th century under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and ended as late as 1903 with the removal of Indian tribes in Southern California.

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• Indians, Treatment of -- United States
• Indians of North America -- Government relations
• Indians of North America -- Relocation
• Indians of North America -- History -- 19th century
• Indians of North America -- History -- 20th century
• Indians of North America

• Trail of Tears, 1838-1839

• Compulsory Removal of Indians, 1813-1903
• Forced Indian Relocation, 1813-1903
• Forced Indian Removal, 1813-1903
• Forced Relocation of Indians, 1813-1903
• Forced Removal of Indians, 1813-1903
• Indians of North America -- Forced Removal, 1813-1903
• Indians of North America -- Removal
• Relocation of Indians, Forced, 1813-1903
• Removal of Indians, 1813-1903

• A history of Indiana, from its earliest exploration by Europeans to the close of the territorial government, in 1816 : comprehending a history of the discovery, settlement, and civil and military affairs of the territory of the U.S. northwest of the River Ohio, and a general view of the progress of public affairs in Indiana, from 1816 to 1856 (Bingham & Doughty, 1859), by John B. Dillon, Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Collection (Library of Congress), and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Removal of the Indians an article from the American Monthly Magazine, an examination of an article in the North American Review, and an exhibition of the advancement of the southern tribes in civilization and Christianity. (Peirce and Williams, 1830), by Convers Francis, Jeremiah Evarts, and George B. Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)

• Speech of Mr. Everett, of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives, on the 14th and 21st of February, 1831, on the execution of the laws and treaties in favor of the Indian tribes. (s.n., 1831), by Edward Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Mr. Sprague, of Maine : delivered in the Senate of the United States, 16th April, 1830, in reply to Messrs. White, McKinley, and Forsyth, upon the subject of the removal of the Indians. (Pub. at the Office of the National Journal, 1830), by Peleg Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian races of North and South America : comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races, a description of their national customs, mythology, and religious ceremonies, the history of their most powerful tribes, and of their most celebrated chiefs and warriors, their intercourse and wars with the European settlers, and a great variety of anecdote and description, illustrative of personal and national character (Dayton and Wentworth, 1853), by Charles De Wolf Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myths of the Cherokee (G.P.O., 1902), by James Mooney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Junaluska. (M. McCulloch, 1916), by Maude McCulloch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Findings of fact and conclusions of law, filed May 18, 1905 (G.P.O., 1905), by United States. Court of Claims (page images at HathiTrust)
• Head Quarters, Army, Cherokee Nation, New Echota, Ga. March 22nd, 1837 ([New Echota, Ga.] : [publisher not identified], [1837], 1837), by John Ellis Wool (page images at HathiTrust)

• 1812: The Rivers of War, by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)

• Trail of Tears National Historic Trail : Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee : comprehensive management and use plan. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1992), by United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comprehensive management and use plan : map supplement : Trail of Tears National Historic Trail : Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 1992), by United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trail of Tears National Historic Trail : comprehensive management and use plan. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center, 1992), by United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Cherokee removal in organizations from the state of Alabama (The National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1958), by United States National Archives and Records Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index to compiled service records of volunteer soldiers who served during the Cherokee disturbances and removal in organizations from the state of North Carolina (The National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1958), by United States National Archives and Records Service (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law v54, #3, with errata slip: New York: Columbia University, 1913), by Almon Wheeler Lauber
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Indian's Side of the Indian Question (Boston : D. Lothrop, c1887), by William Barrows (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Remarks on the Policy and Practice of the United States and Great Britain in Their Treatment of Indians (Boston: F.T. Gray, 1827), by Lewis Cass (multiple formats at Google)
• An Appeal to the Virtue and Good Sense of the Inhabitants of Great Britain, &c. in Behalf of the Indians of North America (1820), by Walter Bromley (page images at canadiana.org)
• A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (first edition; New York: Harper and Bros., 1881), by Helen Hunt Jackson, contrib. by Henry Benjamin Whipple and Julius H. Seelye
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (based on the second edition, 1885), by Helen Hunt Jackson, contrib. by Henry Benjamin Whipple and Julius H. Seelye (HTML with commentary at nanations.com)
• A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (new edition, with report of needs of Indians in California; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1888), by Helen Hunt Jackson, contrib. by Henry Benjamin Whipple and Julius H. Seelye (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (new edition, with report of needs of Indians in California; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Helen Hunt Jackson, contrib. by Henry Benjamin Whipple and Julius H. Seelye
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Indian Dispossessed (revised edition; New York: Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada, c1905), by Seth K. Humphrey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Indians of California (reprinted from "Crusoe's Island"; San Francisco: Colt Press, 1944), by J. Ross Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the United States Indian Inspector for the Indian Territory, by United States Indian Inspector for the Indian Territory (partial serial archives)
• A history of Indian policy (Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1973), by S. Lyman Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first annual report of the American Society for promoting the civilization and general improvement of the Indian tribes in the United States. Communicated to the society, in the city of Washington, with the documents in the appendix, at their meeting, Feb. 6, 1824. (Printed for the Society, by S. Converse, 1824), by American Society for Promoting the Civilization and General Improvement of the Indian Tribes within the United States and Jedidiah Mores (page images at HathiTrust)
• Condition of the Indian tribes (Govt. print. off., 1867), by United States Congress Joint Special Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Indian Tribes (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address of the representatives of the Religious society of Friends, for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, to their fellow-citizens, on behalf of the Indians. (Friend's book store, 1891), by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (page images at HathiTrust)
• The movement for Indian assimilation, 1860-1890. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963), by Henry E. Fritz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourse on the surviving remnant of the Indian race in the United States. Delivered on the 24th October, 1836, before the Society for commemorating the landing of William Penn ... (Printed by A. Waldie, 1836), by Job R. Tyson and Society for Commemorating the Landing of William Penn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian's side of the Indian question (D. Lothrop Company, 1887), by W. Barrows (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rights of the Indians ([publisher not identified], 1830), by William B. Calhoun and Committee on Memorial to Congress concerning the Rights of the Indians (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on the practicability of Indian reform, embracing their colonization : with an appendix (Printed by Gray and Bunce, 1829), by Isaac McCoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acknowledgment and apology : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session on S.J. Res. 15, to acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the U.S. government regarding Indian tribes and offer an apology to all Native peoples on behalf of the United States, May 25, 2005, Washington, DC. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The red man in the new world drama; a politico-legal study, with a pageantry of American Indian history (W.F. Roberts Co., 1931), by Jennings C. Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• America needs Indians! (Bradford-Robinson, printers, 1937), by Iktomi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Senator Intrigue and Inspector Noseby; a tale of spoils (Red-letter publishing Co., 1895), by Frances C. Sparhawk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian dispossessed (Young People's Missionary Movement, 1905), by Seth K. Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compressed view of the points to be discussed, in treating with the United States of America; A.D. 1814 : With an appendix and two maps. (Printed for J.M. Richardson, 1814), by Nathaniel Atcheson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Onoqua (Lee and Shepard, 1892), by Frances C. Sparhawk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposed Indian policy. (s.n.], 1881), by James W. M. Newlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• To citizens and to all organizations concerned with the welfare of American Indians (American Indian Defense Association, 1923), by American Indian Defense Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Hon. Carter H. Harrison, of Illinois, on the treatment of savages, delivered July 8, 1876, and on Texas border question, delivered July 12, 1876 ... (Washington, 1876), by Carter H. Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian slavery in colonial times within the present limits of the United States (Williamstown, Mass. : Corner House Publishers, [1913], 1913), by Almon Wheeler Lauber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A compressed view of the points to be discussed, in treating with the United States of America : A.D. 1814, with an appendix and two maps. (Printed for J.M. Richardson, Cornhill, by T. Davison, Whitefriars, 1814), by Nathaniel Atcheson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on the practicability of Indian reform, embracing their colonization. (Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, 1827), by Isaac McCoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nineteen hundred ninety three - nineteen hundred ninety eight, federal indian policies (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of American Indian Trust, 1998), by United States. Office of American Indian Trust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on federal Indian law consolidation, revision, and codification. (U.S. G.P.O., 1976), by United States. American Indian Policy Review Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Indian Policy Review Commission : final report submitted to Congress May 17, 1977. (U.S. G.P.O., 1977), by United States. American Indian Policy Review Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of John Ross and others : delegates from the Cherokee Indians, complaining of injuries done them, and praying for redress. (G.P.O.], 1834), by Cherokee Nation, John Ross, United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and United States. Congress 1833-1834). Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final report (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by United States. American Indian Policy Review Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plea of our brown brother ; Ke-wa-kun-ah, the homeward way (Indian Print Shop Press, 1906), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of the President on current indian legislation, work needed, etc. (Royal Print. Co., 1887), by Amelia S. Quinton and Women's National Indian Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston Monday lectureship : the prelude to the one hundred and seventy-fifth lecture of Joseph Cook (Indian Rights Association, 1885), by Joseph Cook and Indian Rights Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Long hair prohibited (United States Dept. of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, 1902), by William A. Jones and United States Office of Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian's side of the Indian question (D. Lothrop, 1887), by William Barrows (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compressed view of the points to be discussed in treating with the United States of America, A.D. 1814 with an appendix and two maps. (Printed for J.M. Richardson ..., 1814), by Nathaniel Atcheson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compressed view of the points to be discussed in treating with the United States of America with an appendix (s.n.], 1815), by Nathaniel Atcheson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plea for the Indians with facts and features of the late war in Oregon (J. Beeson, 1858), by John Beeson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conditions on the Flathead and Fort Peck Indian Reservations (Board of Indian Commissioners, 1915), by W. H. Ketcham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian dispossessed (Little, Brown, and company, 1905), by Seth K. Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A plea for the Indians ; with facts and features of the late war in Oregon. (J. Beeson, 1858), by John Beeson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law consolidation, revision, and codification : final report (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1976), by United States. American Indian Policy Review Commission. Task Force Nine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Justice to the Indian : read before the Congregational Association of Oregon and Washington, July 14, 1883 (G. H. Himes, 1969), by Myron Eells and Congregational Association of Oregon and Washington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The colleges and the Indians, and the Indian Rights Association (Indian Rights Association, 1888), by J. B. Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The California Indians, a clever satire on the government's dealings with its Indian wards. (Indian Board of Co-operation, 1919), by J. Ross Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Indian dispossessed (New York : Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada, 1905., 1905), by Seth K. Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)

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