Un'asta sulla storia del WEST

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Il 25 e 26 marzo prossimi la SchylerJ. Rumsey (una casa d'aste americana) disperdera' la collezione Milgram sulla storia postale del West. Tra l'altro vi ho visto la seguente lettera:

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Nella fattispecie e' indirizzata a John Ross, capo della ''nazione cherokee'' a Washington. La ''rimozione'' degli indiani Cherokee ha meritato un'apposita voce di wikipedia:
''The Cherokee removal (May 25, 1838 – 1839), part of the Indian removal, refers to the forced displacement of an estimated 15,500 Cherokees and 1,500 African-American slaves from the U.S. states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama to the West according to the terms of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. It is estimated that 3,500 Cherokees and African-American slaves died en route. Other American Indian groups in the American South, North, Midwest, Southwest, and the Plains regions were removed, some voluntarily, some reluctantly, and some by force. The Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Cherokee were removed reluctantly. The Seminole in Florida resisted removal by the United States Army for decades (1817–1850) with guerrilla warfare, part of the intermittent Native American Wars that lasted from 1540 to 1924. Some Seminole remained in their Florida home country, while others were transported to Indian Territory in shackles'' (catene). Contrariamente all'immaginario collettivo i cherokees avevano adottato costumi del tutto simili agli americani di origine europea... Come mostra un'immagine di John Ross

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Comunque l'asta fornisce anche altri documenti ''storici'' come testimonianze sulle guerre contro i Mormoni