"The Obituary of Nations": Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and the Origins of the Old South

2008/11/23 by James Taylor Carson · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Latin American and Latino Studies #Race, History, and American Society

paper · doi:10.1353/scu.0.0026

openalex publication_date 2008/11/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14

Abstract

"The wilderness settlers thought they were entering was in fact a landscape created and managed by the First Peoples."

Citations

• Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective

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• Andrew Jackson [wikipedia]
• Trail of Tears [wikipedia]

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