Since the arrival of the Europeans in America, The native Indians had been under a lot of pressures. Acculturation, broken treaties, assimilation and removal policies had a few, if any, positive impacts on the Native Americans. The purpose of this paper is about the Indian removal policies that was created by an American president Andrew Jackson. In the development of this research, the removal of the Cherokees to land west of the Mississippi will be the center of attention . It’s important to know what motivate Andrew Jackson, to evict the Cherokees from their own land, and how the Cherokees react to that matter. The relocation of the Indians did not happen without any negative impact. The US economy was affected and the
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But according to him, his action was intend to save the Indian, to keep them on one place, so they could protect their civilization 4. Even if the Cherokee was living and dressing like Americans, Andrew did not want them to stay. His obsession to remove the Cherokee from the homeland led him to take the issue to the US. Congress for the first time in 1829 5. He stated that his plan of removal was the best way to save Native Americans, since the white civilization destroyed the Indians resources: “That this fate surely awaits them if they remain within the limits of the States does not admit of a doubt. Humanity and national honor demand that every effort should be made to avert so great a calamity” 6. He was not the only Americans to support the relocation of native Indians to the west Mississippi. His secretary of war and fellow Tennessean John Eaton was deeply behind Jackson’s removal plan. Thomas L McKenney, was another pro-removal, his participation to the relocation project was to convince the population to accept the removal policy7. It is obvious that Andrew Jackson hated the Indians, since 1817 when was a general, he expressed his hatred against them in his comment when he said that native Americans was the subjects of the United States and then he added that they would agree to leave the land of Georgia. He finally succeed, the removal act passed in the senate in May 1830, after the Congressman Joseph Hemphill introduced an amendment in order to delay the removal act for one year.
But according to him, his action was intend to save the Indian, to keep them on one place, so they could protect their civilization 4. Even if the Cherokee was living and dressing like Americans, Andrew did not want them to stay. His obsession to remove the Cherokee from the homeland led him to take the issue to the US. Congress for the first time in 1829 5. He stated that his plan of removal was the best way to save Native Americans, since the white civilization destroyed the Indians resources: “That this fate surely awaits them if they remain within the limits of the States does not admit of a doubt. Humanity and national honor demand that every effort should be made to avert so great a calamity” 6. He was not the only Americans to support the relocation of native Indians to the west Mississippi. His secretary of war and fellow Tennessean John Eaton was deeply behind Jackson’s removal plan. Thomas L McKenney, was another pro-removal, his participation to the relocation project was to convince the population to accept the removal policy7. It is obvious that Andrew Jackson hated the Indians, since 1817 when was a general, he expressed his hatred against them in his comment when he said that native Americans was the subjects of the United States and then he added that they would agree to leave the land of Georgia. He finally succeed, the removal act passed in the senate in May 1830, after the Congressman Joseph Hemphill introduced an amendment in order to delay the removal act for one year.