The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession by George D Pappas

Author:George D Pappas [Pappas, George D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, United States, 19th Century, Civilization, Law, General, Jurisprudence, Discrimination, Indigenous Peoples, Literary Criticism, American, Subjects & Themes, Politics, Political Science, History & Theory, Imperialism, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies
ISBN: 9781317282105
Google: VUGTDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-14T04:59:13+00:00

Chapter 7

The wilderness in American art and literature

But the tribes of Indians inhabiting this country were fierce savages, whose occupation was war, and whose subsistence was drawn chiefly from the forest. To leave them in possession of their country, was to leave the country a wilderness.

Chief Justice John Marshall, Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823)

The whites have been gradually pressing upon them, as they kept receding from the approaches of civilization. We have purchased the greater part of their lands, destroyed their hunting grounds, subdued the wilderness around them, overwhelmed them with our population, and gradually abridged their native independence.

Chief Justice John Marshall, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)

The humane policy of the government towards these children of the wilderness must afford pleasure to every benevolent feeling, and if the efforts made have not proved as successful as was anticipated, still much has been done.

Chief Justice John Marshall, Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

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