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.