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The Miami were split, with many of the tribe resettled west of the Mississippi River during the 1840s. [117] In the Second Treaty of Buffalo Creek (1838), the Senecas transferred all their land in New York (except for one small reservation) in exchange for 200,000 acres (810 km 2) of land in Indian Territory.
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their enslaved African Americans [3] within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.
Motivations to assimilate were based on disconnecting people from traditional homelands, where Native American people have special relationships to land and ties communities. [1] [14] While an economic and cultural disaster for many indigenous people of the United States, the act was rationally planned and successful for the US. [12]
Indigenous people are the original stewards of this land, and the story of Wisconsin needs to include that of forced relocation of peoples. Forced relocation of peoples an integral part of ...
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, provided "for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal east of the river Mississippi".
The report also revealed that the U.N. Refugee Agency’s new estimate is 20% higher than its 2024 figure — equating to about an expected 500,000 more displaced people next year.
Throughout history, Indigenous people have been subjected to the repeated and forced removal from their land. Beginning in the 1830s, there was the relocation of an estimated 100,000 Indigenous people in the United States called the "Trail of Tears". [180]
The genocide of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide, [1] or settler genocide [2] [3] [note 1] is the elimination of indigenous peoples as a part of the process of colonialism. [note 2] According to certain genocide experts, including Raphael Lemkin – the individual who coined the term genocide – colonization is intrinsically genocidal.