Signed into law by President Andrew Jackson in 1830, the Removal Act made removal and relocation the U.S.’s official policy on managing the Indian population. The Removal Act authorized the government to seize Indian lands within existing state borders and relocate tribes west of the Mississippi River.
Removal Act Quotes in The Inconvenient Indian
The The Inconvenient Indian quotes below are all either spoken by Removal Act or refer to Removal Act. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 9. As Long as the Grass is Green
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The issue has always been land. It will always be land, until there isn’t a square foot of land left in North America that is controlled by Native people.
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Removal Act Term Timeline in The Inconvenient Indian
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Chapter 4. One Name to Rule Them All
Removal became national policy when Andrew Jackson signed the Removal Act into law in 1830, symbolically framing removal as a triumph of civilization over savagery. From...
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