The Effect Of The Indian Removal Act On Family, Community, And Culture

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If you had been forced away from your family, community, and culture (as Native children were until the mid-1980s) how might you have turned out differently? What would you have missed learning without your personal cultural influences?
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830 to permit the elimination of Indian tribes to federal territory west of the Mississippi River.
According to our text (McNamara & Burns) the government then held the belief that the Indians did not have the right to hinder progress within the public (McNamara & Burns, 2009, p. 126).
If this act would have occurred when I was a child and held the same affect on me as well as my family, there is no doubt that I would have turned

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