Tim Alan Garrison

Tim Alan Garrison is Professor Emeritus of History at Portland State University. He is the author or editor of the following works: Sovereignty on Trial: The Cherokee Nation and the Fight for Native Rights (University Press of Kansas, 2026); The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies (with Greg O’Brien) (University of Nebraska Press, 2017); “Our Cause Will Ultimately Triumph”: Profiles in American Indian Sovereignty (Carolina Academic Press, 2014); Before the Paper Chase: The Scholarship of Law School Preparation and Admissions (with Frank Giuluzza) (Carolina Academic Press, 2012); The Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law, two volumes (with Paul Finkelman) (CQ Press, 2008); and The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations (University of Georgia Press, 2002, paperback edition, 2009).

His articles include: “Twisting Air: Native Southerners and Their Encounters with Tornadoes” in Native South; “Inevitability and the Southern Opposition to Indian Removal,” in The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies; “The Cherokees: From Resistance to Republic, in National Geographic History; “John Ross: Father of His Country,” in “Our Cause Will Ultimately Triumph”: Profiles in American Indian Sovereignty; “Cherokees on the Columbia: Elisha Chester’s Quixotic Indian Removal Proposal,” in Columbia; “The Shades of Loyalty: Elisha W. Chester and the Cherokee Removal,” in Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History; “Pan-Nationalism as a Crisis Management Strategy: John Ross and the Tahlequah Conference of 1843,” in Between Settler and Indigenous Governance; “John Ross and Indian Removal,” in Milestone Documents of American Leaders; “The Foundations of Jackson’s Removal Policy: U.S.-Indian Relations, 1775-1815” in A Companion to Jacksonian America; “On the Trail of Tears: Daniel Butrick’s Record of the Roundup, Internment, and Removal of the Cherokees,” in Removing Peoples: Forced Removal in the Modern World; “Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress on Indian Removal,” in Milestone Documents in American History; Introduction to “‘You Can Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,’” in The History of Nebraska Law; “United States Indian Policy in Sectional Crisis: Georgia’s Exploitation of the Compact of 1802,” and “The Devil and Andrew Jackson: Historians and Jackson’s Role in the Indian Removal Crisis,” both in Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson; “The Cherokee Cases,” in The Public Response to Controversial Supreme Court Cases; “Recent Works on the History of U.S. Indian Policy,” in Tulsa Law Journal; “Beyond Worcester: The Alabama State Judiciary’s Repudiation of Native American National Sovereignty,” in the Journal of the Early Republic; “Politics and Government,” in American Eras: Prehistory to 1600; and “The Nadir of Native American Sovereignty,” in Reviews in American History.

Garrison is presently working on a book on racial violence in Georgia in the 1960s.