Table of Contents
Part 1 Introduction 2
Brief Overview of the Game 3
Prologue: On the Road to Red Clay 4
Red Clay, Tennessee, October 1835 4
Prelude: The Hermitage 6
What Is Reacting to the Past 8
How to Play a Reacting Game 8
Game Setup 8
Game Play 9
Game Requirements 10
Skill Development 10
Part 2 Historical Background 12
Chronology 13
Nation to Nation: Cherokee and U.S. Relations 14
Cherokee Culture and the Land 23
How the World Was Made 24
Selu (Corn Mother) 25
The Removed Townhouses 26
Women in Cherokee Culture 28
Disputes, Crime, and Conflict Resolution 30
In the Historical Moment 31
Part 3 The Game 34
Major Issues for Debate 35
Rules and Procedures 37
Victory Objectives 37
Basic Outline of the Game 39
Context Sessions 39
Game Session 1 40
Game Session 2 40
Subsequent Game Sessions 41
Debriefing and Postmortem 41
Personal Agreements 41
Additional Objectives 41
Written Assignments 42
Scores 42
Grades 42
Counterfactuals 42
Part 4 Roles and Factions 44
Overview of Factions 45
The National Party (Ross Faction) 45
The Treaty Party (Ridge Faction) 46
White Faction 47
Indeterminates 47
Guests at the Hermitage Debate 49
Part 5 Core Texts 50
The Cherokee and the Policies of Civilization
John Ridge, Letter to Albert Gallatin, 1826 51
Elias Boudinot, An Address to the Whites, 1826 59
Assault on Indian Sovereignty
Georgia General Assembly, Georgia Indian Laws, 1829,1830 69
U.S. Congress, Indian Removal Act, 1830 74
The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia, 1831 76
Samuel A. Worcester v. The State of Georgia, 1832 83
Elias Boudinot, Letter to Stand Watie, 1832 99
John Ridge, Letter to Stand Watie, 1832 101
Legal Commentaries
James Kent, Of the Foundation of Title to Land, 1828 103
Cherokee National Council, Memorial of the Cherokee Indians, 1830 106
Joseph Story, From Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833 113
Alexis de Toqueville, From Democracy in America, 1835 115
The Debates About Indian Removal
Cherokee Women, Three Petitions, 1817, 1818, 1831 126
John Ross et al., Letter to John C. Calhoun, 1824 129
Elias Boudinot, Editorials in The Cherokee Phoenix, 1829, 1831 132
Lewis Cass, Removal of the Indians, 1830 138
Jeremiah Evarts [as William Penn], A Brief View of U.S-Indian Relations, 1829 148
Andrew Jackson, From First Annual Message to Congress, 1829 157
Theodore Frelinghuysen, Speech before the Senate, 1830 159
Wilson Lumpkin, Speech before Congress, 1830 170
Andrew Jackson, From Second Annual Message to Congress, 1830 178
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Resolutions Concerning Indian Removal, 1830 181
George Troup, The Sovereignty of the States, 1832 189
Wilson Lumpkin, Message to Georgia General Assembly, 1832 191
Cherokee Indians [Treaty Party], Memorial of a Council Held at Running Waters, 1834 194
Elias Boudinot, Letter to Stand Watie, 1835 202
John Ridge, Letter to Major Ridge and Others, 1835 204
William H. Underwood and John Ridge, Letter to Lewis Cass, 1835 205
John Schermerhorn, Letter Regarding the Legitimacy of the Cherokee Government, 1835 206
Selected Bibliography 219
Pronunciation Key 220
Notes 221
Acknowledgments 223
