35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

Trista - June 6, 2019

35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights
A map showing the effect of the Indian Removal Act. Slide Serve.

24. Tribes Throughout the South Were Forcibly Relocated

Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw, and Seminole Native Americans all lived in the American South, and as a warmonger who had built his reputation on fighting them, Jackson forced just about all of them to leave their homes in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida, and relocate to newly-formed reservations in Oklahoma.

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