1830

Indian Removal Act

United States; eastern Indigenous nations

The act authorized removal negotiations and land exchanges that the Jackson administration used to advance expulsion west of the Mississippi. Coercive treaties and military enforcement turned formal negotiation into large-scale forced displacement.

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Context / qualification

The act and its implementation are separate: it was not a text naming every later forced march.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 6
• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 6
• National Archives — Indian Removal Act ↗

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