Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...New Orleans—variants of the X-code left by searchers as they systematically covered the city, critically pertinent markings applied to visited houses and buildings. “Paint fades, archives endure,” reads a promotional...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
Georgia, 1831. Map by Young & Delleker, Sc. Published by A. Finley. Courtesy of the Historic Maps collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. Georgia led the United States in the expulsion...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...in 1825. In addition, in 1824 the US House Committee on Indian Affairs estimated that over eight hundred Indian children had attended mission schools within Indian territories. See Francis Paul Prucha,...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...title.1The unique 1802 Compact between Georgia and the federal government settled Georgia’s claim to its western land beyond the Chattahoochee River in return for a pledge to extinguish Indian title...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...markings, 2007. The location of the code on a building was often an indication of when in the progress of the flood a search had been conducted. A code...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Indians were Indian because there was no definition. What did the Court look to determine whether Natives were Indians? Behaviors and stereotypes. They decided that Pueblo Indians were dimwitted, had...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...characters and readers of the novel. How can American Indians, very much including American Indian writers and the enterprises of American Indian literature and criticism, repossess dispossessed southeastern homelands and...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...of Washington, the 1818 Treaty at Creek Agency, and the 1821–25 Treaty of Indian Springs, all Muscogee lands in Georgia were ceded. Emogene Williams, Newton County, Georgia. Photograph by and courtesy...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
Introduction to the Battle of Atlanta Project Confederate and Union troops in close combat, Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Painting by the American Panorama Company. The fall of...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...site, Savannah, Georgia, 1907. Courtesy of Georgia Historical Society Archives. A 1907 plat labeled as the "Plan of the lands of the Agricultural and Mechanical Association [of Georgia] old Ten...