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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 ...
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.
The Cherokee removal (May 25, 1838 – 1839), part of the Indian removal, refers to the forced displacement of an estimated 15,500 Cherokees and 1,500 African-American slaves from the U.S. states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama to the West according to the terms of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. [1]
BRISTOL, R.I. (WPRI) — After nearly 400 years, the Pokanoket tribe can finally return to their ancestral land, marking a historic victory for Rhode Island and the nation. On Friday, Nov. 15 ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ...
The Shasta Indian Nation will regain over 2,800 acres of ancestral land in northwestern California from the state, Gavin Newsom’s office announced today.
Genocide, mass murder, forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, starvation, internment, genocidal rape, cultural genocide: Deaths: 96% population drop (1492–1900) [a] +4 million (est. 1492-1776) [3] 350,000 (58% population decline from 1800 to 1890) [4] Victims: 98% loss of ancestral homelands [5] Perpetrators: United States
Navajos were forced to walk from their land in western New Mexico Territory (modern-day Arizona and New Mexico) to Bosque Redondo in eastern New Mexico. Some 53 different forced marches occurred between August 1864 and the end of 1866. In total, 10,000 Navajos and 500 Mescalero Apache were forced to the internment camp in Bosque Redondo. [2]