Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Donna L. Akers
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 63-76
Description
Investigates the Indian Removal Act of 1830, in the United States, that allowed the forcible removal of thousands of people from their homelands in the American Southeast to lands west of the Mississippi River.