Indian removal
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Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern
Merida Fresken Pacheco 15 Diego de Landa
Trail of Tears
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The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of about 60,000 Native Americans of the "Five Civilized Tribes", including their black slaves, between 1830 and 1850 by the United S
Indian removal
…and Choctaw nations (including thousands of their black slaves) were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands, with thousands dying during the Trail of Tears. The origins of the policy date back to the administration of James Monroe, but it addressed conflicts which had occurred between the American settlers…
The Trail of Tears memorial at the New Echota Historic Site in Georgia, which honors the Cherokees who died on the Trail of Tears
George W. Harkins, Choctaw chief
Alexis de Tocqueville, French political thinker and historian
Seminole warrior Tuko-see-mathla, 1834