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Remember the Trail of Tears
Speaker: John Edward Porter
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Vol. 134 No. 141 Pg. E3278 (Oct. 06, 1988)
Trail of Tears
Speaker: Wendell Hampton Ford
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Vol. 133 No. 197 Pg. S17786 (Dec 11, 1987)
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
PL 100-192 [101 Stat. 1309] (Dec 16, 1987)
Enacted Bill: 100 S. 578

Trail of Tears: Internet Resources

American Expansion Turns to Official Indian Removal
by Doug Kiel
(Erosion of the Middle Ground: Native Peoples of the Great Lakes Region after 1815)
U.S National Park Service, 2017
Discover the Trail of Tears: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places
U.S. National Park Service
President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
--President Andrew Jackson's call for the relocation of eastern Native American tribes to land west of the Mississippi River, in order to open new land for settlement by citizens of the United States.
Primary Document of J.F. Schermerhorn's Letter to Governor Clay
Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History
--Letter discusses the Treaty of New Echota. It mentions the terms of the treaty, which includes removal of Cherokee Indians.
Trail of Tears, National Historic Trail
U.S. National Park Service
Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation
(Teaching with Historic Places)
U.S. National Park Service
The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and the Tennessee, Wheeler and White River National Wildlife Refuges
(Historical and Interpretation Study)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2007 [99 pg]

Trail of Tears: Library Resources

Comprehensive Management and Use Plan: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail by National Park Service
Call Number: I 29.88/3:T 22
Publication Date: 1992
Marx Library Gov Docs Bookstacks (2nd FL South)
Federal Indian Policies, from the Colonial Period Through the Early 1970’s by U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Call Number: I 20.2:F 31/2/974
Publication Date: 1974
Marx Library Gov Docs Bookstacks (2nd FL South)
Handbook of North American Indians by William C. Sturtevant
Call Number: SI 1.20/2:v. 2-15, 17
Publication Date: 1978-2007
Smithsonian Institution
Marx Library Gov Docs Bookstacks (Non-Circ, 2nd FL South)
A History of Indian Policy by S. Lyman Tyler
Call Number: I 20.2:H 62
Publication Date: 1973
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs
Marx Library Gov Docs Bookstacks (2nd FL South)
Indians of the Gulf Coast States by U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Call Number: I 20.51:G 95/968
Publication Date: 1968
Marx Library Gov Docs Bookstacks (2nd FL South)
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail by U.S. National Park Service
Call Number: I 29.6/5:T 22/3 X
Publication Date: 2012
Marx Library Gov Docs Bookstacks (2nd FL South)

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This LibGuide was originally created by Paula Webb and is currently being updated by Vicki Tate. If you have any questions regarding content, email: vtate@southalabama.edu

Last major revision: Dec. 2019

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