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| Tango01 | 28 Sep 2018 4:23 p.m. PST |
"Elected president in 1828, Andrew Jackson supported the removal of American Indians from their homelands, arguing that the American Indians' survival depended on separation from whites. In this 1835 circular to the Cherokee people, Jackson lays out his case for removal. Using paternalistic and threatening language, Jackson urges the Cherokee to accept removal from Georgia and relocate westward peacefully. "I have no motive, my friends, to deceive you," Jackson writes. He continues, "Circumstances that cannot be controlled, and which are beyond the reach of human laws, render it impossible that you can flourish in the midst of a civilized community . . . You have but one remedy within your reach. And that is, to remove to the west." Jackson closes with an ominous tone and these threatening sentences: "The fate of your women and children, the fate of your people, to the remotest generation, depend on the issue." Later that same year, a small group of 100 Cherokee delegates signed the Treaty of New Echota, paving the way for the Cherokee Nation's removal to Oklahoma in 1838…."
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