Monuments to absence : Cherokee removal and the contest over southern memory

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Monuments to absence : Cherokee removal and the contest over southern memory

Title remainder

Cherokee removal and the contest over southern memory

Statement of responsibility

Andrew Denson

Creator

• Denson, Andrew

Author

• Denson, Andrew

Subject

• Collective memory -- Southern States
• Gedenkstätte
• Cherokee
• Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 -- Public opinion
• Vertreibung
• Kollektives Gedächtnis
• Cherokee Indians -- Relocation | Public opinion

Language

eng

Summary

"In the 1830s, the United States forced the majority of Cherokees to leave their southeastern homeland for new territory in the West, an ordeal that caused the deaths of several thousand Cherokee people. This so-called Trail of Tears became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book, Andrew Denson explores the public memory of Cherokee removal through an examination of memorials, historic sites, and tourist attractions dating from the early twentieth century to the present. White southerners, Denson argues, embraced the Trail of Tears as a story of Indian disappearance. Commemorating Cherokee removal affirmed white possession of southern places, while granting them the moral satisfaction of acknowledging past wrongs. During segregation and the struggle over black civil rights, removal memorials reinforced whites' authority to define the South's past and present. Cherokees, however, proved capable of repossessing the removal memory, using it for their own purposes during a time of crucial transformation in tribal politics and U.S. Indian policy. In considering these representations of removal, Denson brings commemoration of the Indian past into the broader discussion of race and memory in the South." -- From publisher's description

Cataloging source

NcU/DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E99.C5

LC item number

D47 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography