Jenny McIntosh was the first signer of the Cherokee women's petition of May 2, 1817,[1][2] one of the first collective women's petitions sent to any body in the United States, and arguably the first women's anti-removal petition in U.S. history.[3] She became a landholder under the Treaty of 1817, and later made other innovations in petitioning, authoring one of the first petitions for Native women's equal rights to the Tennessee legislature in 1822.

McIntosh was the daughter of Ka-ti (Caty) Harlan and her first husband, John Walker.[4]

References

  1. ^ Martinez, Donna (2018-12-07). Documents of American Indian Removal. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-5420-0.
  2. ^ Carpenter, Daniel (2021-05-04). Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790Ð1870. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-24749-9.
  3. ^ Tiya Miles. ""Circular Reasoning": Recentering Cherokee Women in the Antiremoval Campaigns". American Quarterly.
  4. ^ Sarah Wilkerson Freeman; Beverly Bond (1 October 2010). Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times. University of Georgia Press. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-0-8203-3901-6.


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