The Legal Ideology of Indian Removal
Featured Speakers - Tim Garrison
March 5, 2009
ESD 112 Conference Center
On March 5, 2009, Tim Garrison (Portland State University) led teachers to interrogate a range of documents related to the Cherokee Nation and the history of Indian Removal in the United States, from the founding of the country through the Jacksonian era.
Dr. Garrison asked us to consider four questions:
- What were the competing interests that had to be considered by the national government?
- Who or what was responsible for removal?
- Was removal inevitable? Why or why not?
- Propose a more agreeable alternative to the “Indian question” that would have been acceptable at that place and time.
More about this program can be found here.