| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第8-9页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第9页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-13页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION | 第13-17页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-24页 |
| 2.1 Researches Overseas | 第17-22页 |
| 2.2 Researches in China | 第22-24页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ REMOVAL POLICY CAME INTO BEING | 第24-31页 |
| 3.1 Latent Mutual Distrust | 第24-25页 |
| 3.2 The United States’Earlier Indian Policy | 第25-29页 |
| 3.3 Alternative Solution: the Removal | 第29-31页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ CHEROKEES’RESPONSE AND THEIR SELF-SALVATION | 第31-39页 |
| 4.1 The Importance of Land to the Cherokees | 第31-33页 |
| 4.2 Traditional Cherokee Social System under Transformation | 第33-35页 |
| 4.3 Cherokees’ Nationalist Movement and the Removal Crisis | 第35-39页 |
| 4.3.1 On the Way to a Sovereign Nation | 第35-36页 |
| 4.3.2 The Pressure from the Whites | 第36-39页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ SOURCE OF LAW FOR THE AMERICAN COURTS DURING THE REMOVAL CRISIS: THE PRECEDENTS | 第39-47页 |
| 5.1 European Theories on Indigenous Sovereignty and Land | 第39-42页 |
| 5.2 America’s Earlier Precedents on the Indian Land Issues | 第42-47页 |
| 5.2.1 Fletcher v. Peck | 第42-44页 |
| 5.2.2 Johnson v. McIntosh | 第44-47页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅵ REINFORCEMENT OF THE INDIAN REMOVAL IN SOUTHERN STATES | 第47-56页 |
| 6.1 The Passage of the Removal Act | 第47-48页 |
| 6.2 State’s Jurisdiction over the Cherokee Land: Georgia v. Tassels | 第48-50页 |
| 6.3 “Domestic Dependent Nation”and Cherokee Nation v. Georgia | 第50-53页 |
| 6.4 Southern States’Response and Caldwell v. Alabama | 第53-56页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅶ THE SOUTHERN REMOVAL IDEOLOGY:THE LAW OF THE LAND | 第56-63页 |
| 7.1 Worcester v. Georgia—An Unfulfilled Guarantee from Marshall | 第56-59页 |
| 7.2 Tennessee v. Forman—The Law of the Land | 第59-63页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅷ THE TRIUMPH OF THE REMOVAL IDEOLOGY | 第63-66页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅸ CONCLUSION | 第66-68页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第68-71页 |
