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Indian removal

Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River—specifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma).

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Location
United States
Attack type
Death march, population transfer, ethnic cleansing, genocide
Date
1830–1847
Deaths
8,000+ (lowest estimate)
Motive
Expansionist desire to acquire Native American land east of the Mississippi River (Manifest Destiny) · Anti-Native American racism
Perpetrators
United States federal government · United States Army · State militias

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Jeffersonian policy

John C. Calhoun's plan

Opposition to removal from US citizens

Indian Removal Act

Removals

Changed perspective

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Indian removal

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related to Indian Removal Act · 27
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related to John C. Calhoun's plan · 27
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related to Andrew Jackson's reputation · 25
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related to Opposition to removal from US citizens · 25
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related to Cherokee · 23
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see also · 17
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related to External links · 9
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related to Changed perspective · 6
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related to Primary sources · 4
Indian removal → American Indian Removal, Documents, Donna, Martinez

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Indian removalAttack typeDeath march, population transfer, ethnic cleansing, genocide1.00infobox
Indian removalDate1830–18471.00infobox
Indian removalDeaths8,000+ (lowest estimate)1.00infobox
Indian removalLocationUnited States1.00infobox
Indian removalMotiveExpansionist desire to acquire Native American land east of the Mississippi River (Manifest Destiny)1.00infobox
Indian removalMotiveAnti-Native American racism1.00infobox
Indian removalPerpetratorsUnited States federal government1.00infobox
Indian removalPerpetratorsUnited States Army1.00infobox
Indian removalPerpetratorsState militias1.00infobox
Indian removalTargetNative Americans in the eastern United States1.00infobox
the already-displaced Lenapeinstance ofTribes0.80text
Indian removalrelated to Andrew Jackson's reputationAndrew Jackson's Indian0.60section

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