By Erica Lalak
Correspondent
DALTON, Ga. — Using papers from President Andrew Jackson, a professor at the University of Tennessee hopes to shed new light on the removal of the Cherokee from Northwest Georgia.
During a symposium Saturday at Dalton State College, Dr. Dan Feller, professor of history at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and director of the papers of Andrew Jackson, will be speaking on “Origins of the Removal Policy: New Light from the Jackson Papers.”
“I’m going to discuss how the federal Indian removal policy that culminated in the Cherokee removal treaty of New Echota in 1835 and the Trail of Tears in 1836 was conceived and implemented at the very outset of President Jackson’s administration,” Dr. Feller said.