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American Indian Removal and Relocation


Native American Urban Relocation | National Archives

Native Americans could move from their rural tribes to metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Seattle.

Removing Native Americans from their Land - Library of Congress

In 1838, as the deadline for removal approached, thousands of federal soldiers and Georgia volunteers entered the territory and forcibly relocated the Cherokees ...

Indian Treaties and the Removal Act of 1830 - Office of the Historian

The US Government used treaties as one means to displace Indians from their tribal lands, a mechanism that was strengthened with the Removal Act of 1830.

Indian Removal Act - National Geographic Education

May 28, 1830 CE: Indian Removal Act ... On May 28, 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, beginning the forced relocation of thousands of ...

Indian removal - PBS

By 1837, the Jackson administration had removed 46,000 Native American people from their land east of the Mississippi, and had secured treaties which led to the ...

The Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation ...

The Choctaw relocation began in 1830; the Chickasaw relocation was in 1837; the Creek were removed by force in 1836 following negotiations that ...

Indian removal - Wikipedia

The Indian Removal Act of 1830, the key law which authorized the removal of Native tribes, was signed into law by United States president Andrew Jackson on May ...

Indian Removal Act: Primary Documents in American History

A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the Cherokees were forcibly ...

Impact of Native American Removal | Teacher Resource

But from about 1830 to 1850, the U.S. government used treaties, fraud, intimidation, and violence to remove about 100,000 American Indians west of the ...

American Indian Removal and Relocation

American Indian Removal and Relocation. How does the Meskwaki (Sac and Fox) Indian experience in Iowa compare to the experience of tribes in other parts of ...

A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States: The Removal Era ...

The policy goals of the era focused on removing Native Americans from Indian Country and moving them west beyond the Mississippi River.

The Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears

Many Native American peoples in the south and north, comprising as many as 100,000 people, were removed from their homelands and relocated under ...

Trail of Tears: Definition, Date & Cherokee Nation | HISTORY

By 1840, tens of thousands of Native Americans had been driven off of their land in the southeastern states and forced to move across the ...

Did You Know? Facts About American Indian Removal

Between 1830 and 1850, the U.S. government used treaties, gun- and bayonet-toting soldiers, and private contractors to remove about 100,000 Native Americans ...

American Indian Removal and Relocation

The treaty that followed opened eastern Iowa to American settlement and pushed the Sac and their Meskwaki allies into central Iowa. Treaties between the tribes ...

Trails of Tears, Plural: What We Don't Know About Indian Removal

The treaty, which was ratified in 1836, gave the Cherokees two years to move to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). The army began rounding up 19,000 ...

American Indian Displacement and Relocation - Online Exhibits

An estimated 750,000 American Indians migrated to cities between 1950 and 1980, some through the Relocation Program and some on their own. Inter-tribal urban ...

Indian Removal Act - Wikipedia

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law, as described by Congress, ...

American Expansion Turns to Official Indian Removal

Americans aggressively pushed Indians to become virtually indistinguishable from themselves, or failing that, to relocate them from areas of ...

The 1950s plan to erase Indian Country | Uprooted | APM Reports

In the 1950s, the United States came up with a plan to solve what it called the "Indian Problem." It would assimilate Native Americans by ...