How Do You Understand The Native American Wars Of The Nineteenth Century?
Baby Boomers read in their history books that Christopher Columbus discovered America. That is a misconception since, obviously, the land was already occupied by Native Americans who had migrated centuries earlier from what is believed to be Northeast Asia. The gradual, but steady destruction of Native American culture is a shameful chapter in our history that had only begun to be told truthfully in the 1970s. Read on to learn more. Understand that the treaty signed with the British ending the Revolutionary War ceded land to the United States that was inhabited by Native Americans and accepted without their consent. Study the Indian Removal Act of 1830, spearheaded by President Andrew Jackson, which encouraged the signing of treaties with Native Americans for the purpose of pushing them westward. The migration was supposed to be voluntary, but was forced in many cases. Among the Native Americans forced out were the Cherokees of the south, 4,000 of whom perished in a march westward that
