Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
(1830)
WHAT IS THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT?
• It is a law which authorised the president to negotiate with southern
Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi
River in exchange for their lands.
EARLY 1800’S
Seminole
Cherokee
TRAIL OF TEARS
• Forceful moving of Native tribes west of the Mississippi river
• Term represents “collective suffering indigenous people experienced”
• Indian territory
• Approximately 100,000 indigenous people were forced from their homes
during that period
• Over 15,000 died during the journey
• Choctaws became the first tribe to sign a treaty
• Second Seminole War in 1835
• Chickasaws agreed to leave their lands in exchange for a monetary
settlement of $3 million
• The Creek tribe partially resettled in 1812, but after the proclamation of
Removal Act they were completely
• Cherokee were persistent and were violently forced to leave the land
• Of the 17,000 Cherokee at least 4,000—and possibly as many as 8,000—
perished
INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS
& Insistent Assimilation of Indians
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS;
POLICY SHIFT
English names
Military-like regime
APALLING FACTS:
Over the 24 years of
Pratt’s direction, Carlisle
graduated only 158
students. (Out of 10,000)
According to Peter Farb in his book, Man’s Rise to
Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of
North America, “The children usually
were kept at boarding school
for eight years, during which
time they were not permitted
to see their parents, relatives,
or friends. Anything Indian—
dress, language, religious
practices, even outlook on
life…was uncompromisingly
prohibited.”
WORKS CITED
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/AndrewJa
cksonCongress.jpg/300px-AndrewJacksonCongress.jpg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act
• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-4/apush-
age-of-jackson/a/indian-removal
• http://projects.leadr.msu.edu/usforeignrelations/files/fullsize/1120f453bc
33f25bd320372b999ffebc.jpg
• http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter3.html
• https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/bias-impact-on-indian-
education-is-an-education-in-bad-education/