Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective
Akers argues that the forced dispossession of Choctaws from Mississippi was far more than political and economic. Rather, the Choctaws saw the forced exile from their homes as a spiritual uprooting to a place they called "The Land of Death," that is, the direction or place where the dead l...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | American Indian culture and research journal 1999-01, Vol.23 (3), p.63-76 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Akers argues that the forced dispossession of Choctaws from Mississippi was far more than political and economic. Rather, the Choctaws saw the forced exile from their homes as a spiritual uprooting to a place they called "The Land of Death," that is, the direction or place where the dead lived after ending their lives in Mississippi. |
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| ISSN: | 0161-6463 |
| DOI: | 10.17953/aicr.23.3.p52341016666h822 |