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Episodes tagged "Indian Removal Act of 1830": 1 through 4 of 4

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  1. Tecumseh's Indian Unification Crusade
    date November 1, 1811 to January 31, 1812map WISCONSIN, Wisconsintags Tecumseh, Native-Americans, Indian Removal Act of 1830

    Through the autumn and winter of 1811 and into 1812, Shawnee leader Tecumseh had been on a whirlwind tour to speak to several Indian tribes. From the Eastern Seaboard, to the Old Northwest, to the Southeast, to Canada, Tecumseh sought to convince all Indian tribes to unify against the growing white intrusion into Indian lands. With a fervor born of desperation and necessity, Tecumseh addressed the...

  2. A Writer's Reaction to the Treatment of the Cheorkee People in Georgia
    date January 2, 1830 to December 31, 1830map INDIAN LANDS, Georgiatags Cherokee Indians, Native-Americans, Indian Removal Act of 1830

    January 1830. An impassioned plea has been made by writer William Penn in the January 2nd 1830 edition of   The Religious Intelligencer, for the case of the Cherokee Nation against the state of Georgia. He has expressed a growing outrage and disgust against the way Indians in general have been mistreated by the United States and her citizens. The government is called upon to act with Christian morality...

  3. The Defiance of Chief Black Hawk
    date April 1, 1832map MERCER, Illinoistags Black Hawk War, Native-Americans, Indian Removal Act of 1830

      “I fought hard. But your guns were well aimed. The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter. My warriors fell around me; it began to look dismal,” said Sauk chief Black Hawk upon his surrender to the U.S 6th Infantry in August of 1832. He had fiercely resisted the continuing encroachment of white settlers into his lands and had...

  4. Indian Land
    date August 20, 1830map PENOBSCOTT, Mainetags Indian Removal Act of 1830, Andrew Jackson, Native-Americans

    On Friday, August 20, 1830, the editor of the Eastern Argus printed some of the Indian Removal Act's guidelines and stipulations for all citizens to read and then judge whether this law was fair to Indian nations, especially the Penobscot Indians of Maine. Land bought and sold by the Penobscot caught the eye of the State legislature. The state saw a way to intervene in tribal affairs to govern the...