Indian Removal
Useful sources
Short summary about the Indian Removal Act
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/remembering-a-tragedy-the-indian-removal-ac The effect of removal on American Indian Tribes (scholars debate) http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/indianremovalf.htm What Alexis De Tocqueville Told US about Democracy and the Future of Black and Native Americans https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2020/11/what-alexis-de-tocqueville-told-us-about-democracy-and-the-future-of-black-and-native-americans-.html |
Lessons
Guided readings: Indian removal https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/guided-readings-indian-removal American Indian Removal: What Does It Mean to Remove a People? (online lesson) This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members, documents, maps, images, and activities to help students and teachers understand an important and difficult chapter in United States history. Explore the vast scope of removal and its effects on Native Nations. https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/resources/American-Indian-Removal-What-Does-It-Mean-Remove-People Explain how and why American foreign policy developed and expanded over time https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-trail-of-tears How did six different Native nations try to avoid removal? (interactive website) Learn about the strategies that six American Indian nations tried to avoid removal. Afterwards select a case study and closely examine the sources that tell a story of removal. https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/removal-six-nations/index.cshtml |
Primary Sources
President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian
Removal' (1830)
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/jacksons-message-to-congress-on-indian-removal
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/jacksons-message-to-congress-on-indian-removal
Related Event
1823 Johnson v M'Intosh
A case in which the Court ruled that Native American nations did not have the right to sell their own land.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/
A case in which the Court ruled that Native American nations did not have the right to sell their own land.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1789-1850/