Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Hobgood, Jr., James Hollister Author's Email Address jimhobgood@aol.com URN etd-11202008-221557 Title GEORGIA NEWSPAPER COVERAGE DISCOVERING CONVENTIONAL PRACTICES OF THE 'CHEROKEE QUESTION': PRELUDE TO THE REMOVAL, 1828-1832 Degree Master of Arts Department Communications Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Leonard Teel Committee Chair Dr. James Darsey Committee Member Dr. Kathryn Fuller-Seeley Committee Member Dr. Mary Stuckey Committee Member Keywords
- Elias Boudinot
- Cherokees
- Cherokee Phoenix
- conventional journalistic practices
- Georgia
- Indians
- Indian Removal
- New Echota
- Newspapers
- Nineteenth century
- White press
Date of Defense 2008-11-10 Availability unrestricted Abstract This thesis analyzes the specific journalistic conventional practices of newspapers in Georgia as they focused on the “Cherokee Question” in 1828-1832, the critical period during which the state considered the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia. The research compares news and opinion texts in five Georgia newspapers with news and opinion texts in the newspaper launched by the Cherokee nation in 1828,the Cherokee Phoenix. While the conventional practices in the white-owned press tended to legitimize removal, the Phoenix adopted some of the same conventionsin order to defend and negotiate Cherokee culture and issues.
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