Abstract
From 1801 through 1835, American Natives—mostly east of the Mississippi or from the Great Lakes and Ohio areas—signed 189 treaties with the Federal Government formally acknowledging appropriation of their lands. But as Georgia Governor Gilmer phrased it in 1830, “Treaties were expedients by which ignorant, intractable, and savage people were induced without bloodshed to yield up what civilized people had a right to possess by virtue of that the Command of the Creator delivered to man upon his...
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As Georgia Governor Gilmer phrased it in 1830, “Treaties were expedients by which ignorant, intractable, and savage people were induced without bloodshed to yield up what civilized people had a right to possess by virtue of that the Command of the Creator delivered to man upon his formation—be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.”1
The paintings of the Hudson River School appear at the time of Indian Removal or dispossession of Natives from areas east of the Mississippi and their “resettlement” in “Indian Territory” or Oklahoma
Summary
Image and the Discourse of Disappearing Indians in Antebellum American Landscape Painting. In a somewhat different version of the Chocorua legend, published four years after Cole’s visit to the mountain, what was identified as “Chocorua’s Cliff” was “ interesting by a legend which tradition has scarcely saved from oblivion,” an anonymous author claiming, “Had it been in Scotland, perhaps the genius of Sir Walter would have hallowed it, and Americans would have crowded there to kindle fancy on the altar of memory,” but “being in the midst of our own romantic scenery,” Chocorua remained little known.28 [Fig. 12] In this rendering, an actual Chocorua lived as whites began settling in southern New Hampshire, yet “from the Indians they received neither injury nor insult.
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