move people to the West. The government passed the Indian Removal Policy in the year 1830‚ which called for the removal of Native Americans from the Tennessee‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina‚ and Georgia areas. It also moved the Seminole capital‚ Echota‚ in Tennessee to the new capital called New Echota‚ Georgia and then eventually to the Indian Territory. The Indian Territory was declared in the Act of Congress in 1830 with the Indian Removal Policy. Elias Boudinot‚ Major Ridge‚ and John Ridge
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In the past‚ American Indians were treated poorly by the white people they came in contact with. Not only did the whites discriminate against the Indians‚ they took their land‚ children‚ and made false interpretations about the way they lived. The whites had no idea about the indians ways of life and should not have been mocking them. All of these instances and many more made the Indians feel belittled and irrelevant in the eyes of other people. In eighteen thirty President Andrew Jackson along
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having the rights‚ which the fathers planned‚ in their favor. The U.S. see them as an evil eye unlike many other Indian tribes. Many of the members of the tribes are changing the culture and they agree that the American soil is not the land of their birth and affections. Jackson’s Indian Removal (1829) 1) The information that Jackson provided to support his position about the Indian policy
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Title: Out in the open: elected female leadership in Canada ’s first nations community Author(s): Cora Voyageur Source: Canadian Review of Sociology. Canadian Review of Sociology. 48.1 (Feb. 2011): p67. Document Type: Report Abstract: The Indian Act banned women from elected leadership positions in reserve politics in Canada until 1951. This paper locates women in reserve politics and provides an analysis of the First Nations women who served as chiefs and councilors across Canada. Amy Wharton
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The removal of American Indian tribes from lands east of the Mississippi River to what is now the state of Oklahoma is one of the tragic episodes in American history. Early treaties signed by American agents and representatives of Indian tribes guaranteed peace and the integrity of Indian territories‚ primarily to assure that the lucrative fur trade would continue without interruption. American settlers’ hunger for Indian land‚ however‚ led to violent conflict in many cases‚ and succeeding treaties
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Lewis Cass‚ "Removal of the Indians‚" article was published by the National Humanities Center to use Standards-Based Professional Development conference. This articles was made in January in the 1830’s years directed towards the Indians. In beginning of the documentation‚ the problem started with the Indians upon arriving to the United States. The Indian group was a big population increase and caused embarrassments and distress to the country. Many people also felt as if the whites could not progress
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was still developing as a new country‚ there were still many conflicts proceeding throughout that period. Andrew Jackson served as the seventh president and his main concern was the removal of the Cherokee tribe from their own land. As a result‚ the Cherokee people were divided amongst themselves because of this act President Jackson wanted to enforce. While many Cherokee people ignored Jackson’s instructions and stayed on their land‚ few did go to what is now Oklahoma. Even before they were told
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Moss 1 Braden Moss Mr. Boyd 10/27/14 1st Period Indian Removal DBQ Ever since the American people arrived at the New World they have continually driven the Native Americans out of their native lands. The decision of the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s was not the only viable decision Jackson had in view of the issues‚ but Jackson had many reasons why he thought the decision was valid even though the Supreme Court said it was
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Taylor on 21 December‚ 1951 Equivalent citations: AIR 1952 P H 277 Author: Soni Bench: Soni ORDER Soni‚ J. 1. This is an application by Shireen Mall under the provisions of Sections 18 and 19 of the Indian Divorce Act‚ 1869‚ read with Sections 3 and 4 of the Indian Matrimonial Causes (War Marriages) Act XL of 1948‚ praying that this Court may declare the marriage between her and the respondent to be null and void. 2. The facts as deposed to by the petitioner are that she was employed as a Sergeant
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The Indian Succession Act The Indian Succession Act was enacted in 1925. The object of the Act was to consolidate the large number of laws which were in existence at that time. Laws governing succession to Muslims and Hindus were excluded from the purview of the Act. While consolidating the law in respect of succession‚ two schemes‚ one relating to succession to property of persons like Indian Christians‚ Jews and persons married under the Special Marriage Act‚ 1954 and the other relating to succession
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