Early Indigenous Literatures

Bibliography

Apess, William. Indian Nullification. Boston: Press of Jonathan Howe (1835). 

Apess, William, ed. Barry O’Connell.  A Son of the Forest and Other Writings, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press (1997).

Bayers, Peter L. “William Apess’s Manhood and Native Resistance in Jacksonian America.” MELUS 31, no. 1 (2006): 123–46.

Bowes, John P. “American Indian Removal beyond the Removal Act.” Native American and Indigenous Studies 1, no. 1 (2014): 65–87. 

Breault, Nicole. “Testing Rights in Contested Space: The District of Marshpee versus Reverend Phineas Fish, 1833-1839.” University of Massachusetts- Boston, 2014.

Brooks, Lisa. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Bruyneel, Kevin. Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Conser, Walter H. “John Ross and the Cherokee Resistance Campaign, 1833-1838.” The Journal of Southern History 44, no. 2 (1978): 191–212.

Eastman, Carolyn. “The Indian Censures the White Man: ‘Indian Eloquence’ and American Reading Audiences in the Early Republic.” The William and Mary Quarterly 65, no. 3 (2008): 535–64.

Gura, Philip F. “Son of the Forest: William Apess and the Fight for Indigenous Rights.” New England Review (1990-) 35, no. 4 (2015): 72–81.

Johnson, Shelby. “Histories Made Flesh: William Apess’s Juridical Theologies.” MELUS 42, no. 3 (2017): 6–25.

Miles, Tiya. Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Meyer, Neil. “‘To Preserve This Remnant:’ William Apess, the Mashpee Indians, and the Politics of Nullification.” The European Journal of American Studies 13, no. 2 (Summer 2018): https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.12635.

Moon, Randall. “William Apess and Writing White.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 5, no. 4 (1993): 45–54.

Moulton, Gary E. “‘Voyage to the Arkansas:’ New Letters of John Ross.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 35, no. 1 (1976): 46–50.

O’Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

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Perdue, Theda. “The Conflict Within: The Cherokee Power Structure and Removal.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 73, no. 3 (1989): 467–91.

Ridge, John. Editorials in Cherokee Phoenix. 1828, 1833.

Saunt, Claudio. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. New York: W.W. Norton Press, 2020.

Simpson, Leanne Betamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Chapters 1 and 7.

Smith, Daniel Blake. “Trail of Tears: A Native American documentary collection.” Golden Valley, MN: Mill Creek Entertainment, 2009.

Thornton, Russell. “Cherokee Population Losses during the Trail of Tears: A New Perspective and a New Estimate.” Ethnohistory 31, no. 4 (1984): 289–300. 

Vipperman, Carl J. “The Bungled Treaty of New Echota: The Failure of Cherokee Removal, 1836-1838.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 73, no. 3 (1989): 540–58.

Whyte, Kyle. “Settler Colonialism, Ecology and Environmental Injustice.” Environment and Society: Advances in Research 9 (2018): 125–144.

Wisecup, Kelly. “Practicing Sovereignty: Colonial Temporalities, Cherokee Justice, and the ‘Socrates’ Writings of John Ridge.” Native American and Indigenous Studies 4, no. 1 (2017): 30–60.

Wilkins, David E. and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Wolfe, Patrick. “Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native.” Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 4 (2006): 535-57.

Young, Mary. “Racism in Red and Black: Indians and Other Free People of Color in Georgia Law, Politics, and Removal Policy.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 73, no. 3 (1989): 492–518.

Zuck, Rochelle Raineri. “William Apess, the ‘Lost Tribes,’ and Indigenous Survivance.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 25,  no. 1 (2013): 1–26.