Indian Removal 
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3/28/2021
America Does Have an "Original Sin": A Response to James Goodman
by Joshua Ward Jeffery
"Original Sin" is a fit metaphor for longstanding inequities in American society, but it's important to understand that the original sin is settler colonialism and the seizure of indigenous land, which American civic religion has been all too willing to accommodate.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/24/2020
‘Unworthy Republic’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Indian Removal in the 1830s
Claudio Saunt’s book traces the expulsion of 80,000 Native Americans over the course of the 1830s, from their homes in the eastern United States to territories west of the Mississippi River.
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3-26-17
Donald Trump Is Really Like Andrew Jackson in this One Way
by Richard J. Morris
Both men won the presidency in part through racist rhetoric and actions.
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