Challenged after a tax law eliminated the penalty for not having healthcare insurance. Listen to the oral arguments live at 10 am eastern on cspan, live a report or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the atlantic History Centers virtual talk series, im sylvia prescott. Tonight i am talking about his new book on were the republic, the dispossession of native americans in indian territory. Purchase the book directly from a cappella books , theres a link in the chat and theres also a link provided on the atlantic institute. As claudia and i are talking about please use the q and a feature atthe bottom of your screen. And i will take as many as time allows. He is professor of american history, codirector of the virtual history and associate director of the institute of native american studies. He is the author of three previous books on american history, west of the revolution, black white and indian and a new order. Claudio saunt, thank you for joining us and welcome. Thank you
Institute of native american studies at the university of georgia. Hes the authohe is the author e previous books west of the revolution, black white and a new order of things. Thank you for joining us and welcome thank you for sponsoring this event. It challenges the idea that so many have represented the expulsion as an inevitability. Youve covered a lot of evidence of political motivations. How much land first did indian zone in the southeast and the decades before the 1830s . They owned a huge amount. Half of what became mississippi and about a fifth of georgia. Its how valuable the land was. It was among the most valuable probably in the entire world at the time. We think of it largely as a southern story. They have much smaller spots of land by the early century. You cover a number of other tribes expelled from new york and ohio and i know it differs from tribe to tribe and state to state but what kind of rights or autonomy did they have lets say in the south . It is contested to