The Long Native American Removal: (1760-1799)
The Long Native American Removal: (1760-1799)
Native American removal lasted nearly one century. Relations between Native Americans, Spain, and the United States were complex. The letters and maps shown here reflect the competing interests that led to the removal of Native Americans from their homelands.
Janna Adelstein, Library Fellow in 2017, helped produced this case as part of the exhibit Tracing the Movement of Populations: American Legacies of Expansion and Removal. She also constructed this site: https://gallery.library.vanderbilt.edu/exhibits/american-legacies to further contextualize the exhibit. Janna currently attends Harvard Law School.
“The Three Cherokees Came Over from the Head of the River Savanna to London” by George Bickham
Engraving, reproduction, 1762
Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
[Clay Pot with Bear Head]
Found in New Madrid County, Missouri
Undated
Peabody College Collection
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
Talk of the Choctaw Nation to the Creek Nation]
Letter, June 10, 1795
James Robertson Papers
Vanderbilt University Special Collections
Henry Timberlake, “Draught of the Cherokee Country”
Map, 1762
Robert A. McGaw Collection
Vanderbilt University Special Collections
Stone Artifact [handle]
Undated
Peabody College Collection
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
George Washington, [Address to the Chickasaw Nation]
Letter, August 22, 1795
James Robertson Papers
Vanderbilt University Special Collections
