Indian Removal Act
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Sep 30, 2026
Judith DeLunePANELIST
Actually, it was the white settlers who migrated to that a- y- area, and that's how they got their name.
Judith DeLunePANELIST
And the United States enacted the In- Indian Removal Act, enforced in the nin- 1830s, but Indiana did not enforce it until 1890.
JessGUEST
The year the house was built.
Judith DeLunePANELIST
Exactly.
Shane WatersHOST
Their own courts, their own laws, their own constitutions.
Shane WatersHOST
The Cherokee had a written constitution by 1827, three years before Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act to drive them from their homelands at gunpoint They had built the exact legal infrastructure the United States claimed they were incapable of building.
Shane WatersHOST
By the year Crawford Goldsby was born, one federal judge held criminal jurisdiction over all 74,000 square miles of that sovereign space.
Shane WatersHOST
His name was Isaac Parker, and he sat in a converted barracks at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Sara LisyCORRESPONDENT
Talk to me more about the Ohio partnerships and why this was important to you.
Glenna WallaceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830, and we were the first ones to be forcibly removed from the state of Ohio.
Glenna WallaceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Our ancestors walked or rode on horseback a distance of some 700 to 800 miles.
Glenna WallaceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Our people walked September, October, November, and arrived here in December.
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
He beats the sitting president, John Quincy Adams, in November and takes office in March of 1829.
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
Instead of marching on New Orleans, though, he signs the Indian Removal Act on May 28, 1830.
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
The act sends the tribes of the South to lands west of the Mississippi, but the only government that can grant title to that land is in London.
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
In 1832, Jackson's envoy and the Foreign Office in London sign a convention.
Joseph ParkinsonHOST
General Andrew Jackson, hero of the War of 1812, fought numerous brutal campaigns of expulsion against native peoples.
Joseph ParkinsonHOST
In 1828, Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States and turned expulsion from expedience into policy with the 1830 Indian Removal Act.
Joseph ParkinsonHOST
What resulted was the mass expulsion, or to give it its proper name, ethnic cleansing, of tens of thousands of indigenous peoples from their native lands, a tragedy remembered by Native Americans as the Trail of Tears.
Joseph ParkinsonHOST
The government in Washington struggled to legally define Native Americans.
Shane David JettGUEST
The tribe's Initially, when I was younger, didn't have a lot of resources.
Shane David JettGUEST
There's a lot of economic development issues that are difficult for tribes because of the constitutions that was created during the Indian Removal Act and the Reconstruction period.
Shane David JettGUEST
So that plays a role in it.
Shane David JettGUEST
We have been developing.
Bobbi FisherHOST
Remember that they were here first for thousands of years.
Bobbi FisherHOST
One of the most infamous examples was the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Bobbi FisherHOST
Thousands of Native Americans were forcibly removed from their homes, resulting in tragedies such as what's known as the Trail of Tears, in which it's estimated that anywhere from 15 to 16,000 Native Americans died over the course of that removal during that Trail of Tears.
Bobbi FisherHOST
so once again we see two competing ideas american expansion and american liberty the united states was expanding geographically while native american nations were often losing their lands independence and political power and i want to just stop there for just a minute and remind people who may not have ever been taught this or have forgotten this was the time when the term manifest destiny came about.
Joanne FreemanHOST
So Jackson is serving the interests and rights of white men.
Joanne FreemanHOST
Along these lines, at Jackson's urging, in 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, appropriating the funds necessary to purchase all of the lands held by Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River and to pay for their resettlement in the West.
Joanne FreemanHOST
So the Indian Removal Act basically funded the forced relocation of Native Americans to the West.
Joanne FreemanHOST
It also gave the president the power to force tribes to relocate.
Joanne FreemanHOST
And not surprisingly, given everything that I've said, it didn't take Jackson long to implement his new authority.
MarkHOST
$4,000 for millions of acres.
LizHOST
That whole 1830 Indian Removal Act was illegal.
LizHOST
What did
MarkHOST
that say?
Joey CliftGUEST
And, um, uh, when he was, um, elected president, he, um, really didn't have a lot of legislative victories.
Joey CliftGUEST
His one legislative victory is that he signed into law something called the Indian Removal Act, which is basically the thing that forced Native folks off of their traditional territories onto reservations through what is often called the Trails of Tears or the Trail of Tears.
Joey CliftGUEST
So, you know, real piece of shit when it comes to native people.
Joey CliftGUEST
And also that wasn't even a real legislative victory.
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