User:EcholsI/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.) I chose this article because it's relevant to my coursework and group projects. The Chickasaw people are one of the many nations of native Americans who were forcibly removed from their native land near the Mississippi River to modern-day Oklahoma. I was interested in the logic and controversies before their forced removal and its impact on their culture and identity.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

This article is very informative and neutral in its tone. In addition, it would help to hear more perspectives from indigenous people rather than white American explorers or people who were in contact with the native people. There isn't a push towards one side of the story, but the article could benefit from introducing more parties' perspectives to the mix. The structure of the article is very easy to follow. I wish separate sections were talking about how each European nation's relation with the Chickasaw people because a lot of it is American-dominated. Most of the citations I checked out were are all relevant and helpful.