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Monuments to Absence - Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory (Hardcover)
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Monuments to Absence - Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory (Hardcover)
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The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern
homeland 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.
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