I highly recommend a free subscription to “Native News Online”—and a donation as well. Today’s juicy reminder, the anniversary of the Indian Removal Act. In 1830, the burgeoning United States sought to put all Native Americans east of the Mississippi River out of their traditional homes and into the Oklahoma Territory—on the other side of the famous river. (Remember too that the Oklahoma Territory was home to the Nez Perce of the Wallowa Valley for a few years, after a war that might have extinguished them. Remember that there were war survivors, and survivors too of Oklahoma, what the Indians called “the Hot Country.”)Read Rich’s Post →
Indian Removal Act–and “Survival”
