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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 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 United States to lands west of the Mississippi River—specifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which ...
Indian Land Consolidation Act; Indian Relocation Act of 1956; Indian Removal Act; Indian Reorganization Act; Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975; The Indian Vaccination Act of 1832; Native American Languages Act of 1990; Nonintercourse Act; Johnson–O'Malley Act; Lacey Act of 1907; Major Crimes Act; Menominee ...
Ideologies like Manifest destiny justified the violent expansion westward, leading to the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and armed clashes. The dehumanization and demonization of Native Americans, epitomized in the United States Declaration of Independence , underscored a pervasive attitude that underpinned colonial and post-colonial ...
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, and State Rep. Kevin Petersen, R-Waupaca, are sponsoring the legislation they say is backed by a group of business groups and businesses ...
M'Intosh and the Expropriation of American Indian Lands, 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1065 (2000). Eric Kades, History and Interpretation of the Great Case of Johnson v. M'Intosh, 19 L. & Hist. R. 67 (2001). Blake A. Watson Buying America From the Indians: "Johnson v. McIntosh" and the History of Native Land Rights (University of Oklahoma Press; 2012 ...
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized the government to remove any Indian nations east of the Mississippi River to the western side and offer land in exchange. As northern Wisconsin was not then under pressure for development by white settlers, as occurred in the Southeast, the Ojibwa were not among ...
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin voters approved a state constitution change requiring someone to be a citizen to vote in elections. The ballot measure had 75% approval with more than 95% of the ...