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The Legal Ideology of Removal; The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations. By Tim Alan Garrison. (Athens, Ga. University of Georgia Press, 2002).

In the 1830's the myth of the west being a land of endless opportunity and freedom had
thousands of people migrating westward. This huge migration caused a demand for land.
Southerners thought that they would increase their wealth by relocating the Indians that lived in
the Southern States. Once the Indians were out of the picture the vast amounts of land they had
lived on could be bought and sold by Southerners. Most of the scholarship that you will find
relating to western migration and the removal of the Native Americans focus mainly on the
decisions of the US Supreme Court. In Tim Alan Garrison's study, The Legal Ideology of
Removal: The Southern Judiciary and Sovereignty of Native American Nations, he uncovers the
role the southern state courts played in the......

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