| Summary: | The 1838 expulsion of the Cherokee Nation from the state of Georgia culminated a decade of oppressive policies and more than two decades of federal pressure on Native Americans to give up their homelands to white settlement. The expulsion occurred over six weeks under the supervision of soldiers stationed at fourteen sites in north Georgia. Evidence from each site documents the individual and institutional abuse spawned by the state’s policies, locates the sources of white citizen aggression, and remembers the Cherokees who navigated the treacherous road of removal. Sarah Hill examines the historic violence against a minority population and culture in this essay about Cherokee expulsion from Rome, Georgia.
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