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Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal

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Debate over the level of economic development for the Eastern Cherokees was heated during the 1830s. Removal opponents argued that the Cherokees had adopted white agricultural methods, whereas advocates of removal maintained that little evidence of progress existed. Removal advocates believed that Cherokee economic progress required that they be removed from contact with whites. This article examines the statistical record to show that a majority of Cherokee households produced surplus food before removal. The large number of Cherokee households producing surpluses before removal suggests the existence of significant rents to be transmitted to white farmers via the removal policy.

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  • Wishart, David M., 1995. "Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 55(1), pages 120-138, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:55:y:1995:i:01:p:120-138_04
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    1. Carlos, Ann M., 2022. "The country that they built: The dynamic and complex indigenous economies in North America before 1492," QUCEH Working Paper Series 22-13, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History.
    2. Carlos, Ann M. & Feir, Donna L. & Redish, Angela, 2022. "Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 82(2), pages 516-555, June.
    3. Gregg, Matthew T., 2009. "Technical efficiency estimates of Cherokee agriculture: A pre- and post-removal analysis," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 826-833, October.
    4. John Komlos & Leonard Carlson, 2014. "The anthropometric history of Native Americans, C.1820–1890," Research in Economic History, in: Research in Economic History, volume 30, pages 135-161, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    5. Gregg, Matthew T. & Wishart, David M., 2012. "The price of Cherokee removal," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 49(4), pages 423-442.
    6. Melinda C. Miller, 2024. "Assimilation and economic development: the case of federal Indian policy," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 199(3), pages 387-404, June.
    7. Hoyt Bleakley & Joseph P. Ferrie, 2013. "Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-run Distribution of Wealth," NBER Working Papers 19175, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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