History Of The Relocation Of Native Americans

During westward expansion, the Native Americans got kicked to the side. The settlers coming west often saw the Indians as a threat to them and their families. However, this was not the main reason the Indians were pushed aside. The settlers saw the Indians had fertile land and wanted it for themselves. The Indians were the opposite of what the settlers thought they were. The Indians often helped the people moving west across the plains; giving them food, supplies, and acting as guides. However, the U.S. Government did not see this side of the Indians, instead they forced the Indians onto reservations. During the time of the expansion of the United States to the present, the Native Americans went through many things so that the United States could expand; they were pushed onto reservations, and forced to give up their culture through the Ideas of Manifest Destiny and Social Darwinism.

Politicians believed the U.S should conquer western lands which prompted the Indian Removal Act in 1830 by Andrew Jackson.The Act enabled the president to make a deal with Indian tribes in the Southern United States to move to federal land by the Mississippi River in exchange for their territory. The indians tribes had no choice to accept, they were forced to leave their homelands and walk

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson addressed Congress stating two Native tribes had accepted the terms of the Indian Removal Act. Jackson said he hoped the two tribes consent would set an example for the other tribes to leave because he thought leaving was an advantage for them. He explained, “It puts an end to all possible danger of collision between the authorities of the General and State governments on account of the Indians.” The two different civilizations didn’t agree, which lead to violent conflicts that lasted centuries. For thirty years, the United States had tried to come to find a way to get the two civilizations reach an agreement. The Indian Removal Act became the United States government’s solution that ended the violent encounters. This Act removed the Natives from northern Tennessee, southern Louisiana, western Alabama and the state of Mississippi, which helped the United

President Andrew Jackson believed that Native Americans were an obstacle in the way of the United States geographical and economical expansion. In 1830, Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which gave him authority to push Indians out of their lands in the Southeast to make way for white settlers (Hillstrom). The Creeks lost 45 percent of their land while 16,000 Cherokee were forced from their homes, of which 4,000 died (Grose). Associates of Jackson claimed these acts were meant to "quell" Indian vanity (Cave). In December of 1835, a small group of Cherokee representatives signed the treaty of New Atocha. The treaty accepted the United States government 's terms for Cherokee removal

Native Americans thrived from nature and their way of life depended on the land of the grassy Great Plains. Their life changed due to horses, and then afterward guns, being introduced to them by the Spanish; which made it easier for them to move and hunt. As settlers moved in, the Native nations were treated poorly and had little to no ability to stand up for what they believed in and how they wanted to live with all the restrictions laid upon them. The federal government created policies, such as The Concentration Policy, “relocation”, and The Dawes Severalty Act, as settlers began moving west which eventually lead to many warfares’s.

The Indian Removal Act signed by the president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, caused controversy and the brutal and merciless suffering of the Native Americans during The Trail of Tears. The beginning of the 1830’s was a time when the Native Americans occupied The Deep South. This, however, was problematic for the white farmers who were in need of farmland in order to increase their production of cotton. Nevertheless, Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, coerced the Native Americans to relocate their civilizations to lands west of the Mississippi. A close examination at the tribes that were compelled to move west would show that they were civilized. Thus, Andrew Jackson was not justified in his policy towards

The Indian Removal Act was a bill signed by President Andrew. This act enabled the president to give grants for unsettled land west of the Mississippi river, “in exchange for Indian lands within existing state border”( "Primary Documents in American History." Library of Congress, 2015). So, the Indian tribes were forcibly taking form their homes and moved to the west, because of this act.

In the 1820s and 1830s, Georgia ordered a cruel battle to remove the Cherokees, who held dominion within the borders of Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee at the time. In 1827 the Cherokees fixed an basic government. The Cherokees were not only reshuffling their government but also declaring to the American public that they were a free nation that could not be removed without their permission. An angry Georgia legislature responded by intending to extend its authority over the Cherokees living in the states declared boundaries. The state took over the Cherokee lands; overthrew their government, courts, and laws; and settled a process for snatching Cherokee land and distributing it to the state's white citizens. In 1830 reps from Georgia and the other southern states pushed through Congress the Indian Removal Act, which gave U.S. president Andrew Jackson the ability to debate removal treaties with the Native American tribes.

Andrew Jackson was not the first president to order the removal of Indians, but he is definitely the most infamous. He was elected as the seventh president of the United States in 1828. Not long after being sworn into office he began to push the issue of Indian removal. He is quoted in a book by John Ehle as saying “Build a fire under them. When it gets hot enough they’ll move” (Ehle 220). He is stating that with enough harassment and persistence the natives will be moved from their land. Under Jackson’s promotion the Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830. This granted him the authority to begin moving the Native Americans to the west of the Mississippi River. So, over the next two decades the Native Americans were removed from their eastern lands and relocated to what is present day Oklahoma. Those who could not be negotiated with were forcefully removed. Some even sought legal action and won, like in 1832 the Supreme Court ruled the federal government must protect the Cherokee nation. However,

The Indian Removal Act, inspired by Andrew Jackson; the 7th president of the US and the enhanced ambition for American settlers to find more land in the southwestern regions of North America. The Indian Removal Act enabled Jackson the power of negotiating removal treaties with Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. Among these tribes were: Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaws and Seminoles. Very few authenticated traits were signed. The Choctaws were the only tribe to agree without any issues. All other attempts resulted in War and blood shed for both white settlers and Indians. The conflict with the U.S. and Indians lasted up until 1837. In 1838 & 1839 Jackson forced the relocation of the remaining Cherokee Indians;

When one hears the word “relocation”, I assume, they think of taking one thing exactly as it was and placing it in a different location, but placing it as it was and with the same resources. Relocation is a loaded term because before the word relocation came about settlers of early America were forcefully pushing native peoples off their homelands; they just didn’t have the term “relocation”. In 1838 Mireau B. Lamar, president of the Republic of Texas, “initiated a policy of ethnic

With the Natives allyless, the United States was able to expanded westward with little opposition. As settlers began to inhabit the Louisiana Purchase, they pushed Natives closer towards the Pacific Ocean. On May 28, 1830, the Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. This act gave the president power to negotiate with Natives tribes in the east for their land in exchange for federal lands west of the Mississippi River that was designated as Indian Territory in present day Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas “(Indian Territory, 1854:). The act paved way for the event known as the Trail of Tears which lasted two

Not many people knew that the process that was carried out by the Jackson administration disrupted the agreements made by Congress that authorized the removal. Historians often misunderstand and misinterpret the requirements of this law. For example a writer in 1830’s claimed that the United States Congress passed a ruling authorizing use of the military force to require the relocation of all native people east of the Mississippi River. The Indian Removal Act passed by Congress in 1830 neither authorized the individual repeal of treaties guaranteeing Native American land rights within the states, nor the forced relocation of the eastern Indians. Yet both occurred, on a massive scale, during and immediately following Andrew Jackson’s administration and were the result, not of an explicit congressional authorization, but of an abuse of presidential

Native Americans are being disrespected, harmed, and their homeland is being taken from them. Am I talking about events taken place centuries ago? No, because these unfortunate circumstances yet again are occurring right here, now, in the present. This horrid affair has a name: The Dakota Access Pipeline. This Pipeline is an oil transporting pipeline, which is funded by the U.S Army Corps of Engineers, who have devised a plan for the pipeline to run through the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. However, unfortunately, this pipeline will run straight through the reservation of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, expressing their distress for the pipeline have said, that the pipeline will be “Destroying our burial sites, prayer sites, and culturally significant artifacts,” Arguments for the pipeline however have tried to counter this claim, trying to emphasize that “The pipeline wouldn 't just be an economic boon, it would also significantly decrease U.S. reliance on foreign oil”, and that the pipeline is estimated to produce “374.3 million gallons of gasoline per day.”, which could help the sinking oil economy. (Yan, 2016) However, despite the economical growth it could achieve, the Dakota Access Pipeline could have damaging environmental effects on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the areas surrounding.

The pipeline not only poses a threat to one of only 326 Native American reservations left in this country, but also to the environment as a whole. Regardless of where you stand, the wrongdoing on the part of the United States Government is undeniable. The Dakota Access Pipeline is corrupt at its core and the dangers surrounding its construction have the potential to be catastrophic to the dwindling Native population by threatening their only source of water. A significant saying within the Sioux tribe, especially in times of protest, is a simple one, but one that is clearly not understood by some, and that is “water is