But many Native Americans were forced onto reservations with catastrophic
1817 On July 8 the Turkeytown Treaty was concluded between the Cherokee and
An Indian reservation is land reserved for and managed by a Native American tribe,
claims on the magnanimity and . . . on the justice of this nation which we must all feel.
That policy changed under the Presidency of Andrew Jackson who signed the
The President of the United States of America was directly involved in the
His trading post made him more prosperous than most Indians—or white
The Act was signed by Andrew Jackson and it was strongly enforced under his
The government sought to move the Indians onto reservations, but this was resisted. President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to put ...
was to move nearly 50,000 eastern Indians to Indian Territory—defined as the ...