Indian removal

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title: Indian removal
text: The Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River—specifically, to a designated Indian Territory, which many scholars have labeled a genocide. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, the key law which authorized the removal of Native tribes, was signed into law by United States president Andrew Jacks
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description: Early 19th-century United States domestic policy
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_removal
date created: 2001-09-28T15:41:19Z
date modified: 2024-09-08T15:41:19Z
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