In 1830, just a year after taking office, Jackson pushed a new piece of legislation called the "Indian Removal Act" through both houses of Congress. It gave the president power to negotiate ...
At the National Museum of the American Indian, we address the importance of the Removal Act in two major exhibitions—Nation to Nation, which opened in September 2014 and will be on view through ...
The Indian Removal Act of 1863 still exists in federal law. It was enacted by President Abraham Lincoln following the Dakota Conflict of 1862, banishing the Dakota from Minnesota. Urdahl began ...