"A monograph of fictional and non-fictional writings on Indian Removal to advance two central claims. First, Native American removal writings cannot be reduced to trauma narratives helping Native people work through the wounds of land loss and death. Second, Native Removal writings across the centuries need to be treated as a genre in its own right. By creating links between historical past, narrative present, and political future, these writers emphasize indigenous futurity: the political and cultural persistence, rather than the disappearance, of indigenous peoples"-- Provided by publisher.