"...approximately 100,000 Indigenous people were forced from their homes..."
- summerthehermitcrab
- Aug 4
- 2 min read
"Both during and after the colonial era in American history, white settlers engaged in prolonged conflicts with Native Americans in the United States, seeking to displace them and seize their lands, resulting in American enslavement and forced assimilation into settler culture" (Wikipedia).
"...approximately 100,000 Indigenous people were forced from their homes during the Trail of Tears, and some 15,000 died during their relocation" (Britannica).
"The 19th century witnessed a surge in efforts to forcibly remove certain Native American nations, while those who remained faced systemic racism at the hands of the federal government. Ideologies like Manifest destiny justified the violent expansion westward, leading to the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and armed clashes" (Wikipedia).
"A justification for the conquest and subjugation of indigenous people emanated from the stereotyped perception that Native Americans were "merciless Indian savages" (as described in the United States Declaration of Independence).[7] Sam Wolfson in The Guardian writes, "The declaration’s passage has often been cited as an encapsulation of the dehumanizing attitude toward indigenous Americans that the US was founded on" (Wikipedia).
"Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced the vast majority of Indigenous people of the Southeast to leave their ancestral homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian Territory” across the Mississippi River" (History).
"78 percent of Americans want to learn more about Native people, our histories, our cultures, and contemporary stories. 78 percent of Americans also believe that it’s important to feature more stories about Native peoples in television and movies. 72 percent of Americans support changes to K-12 curriculum to include Native peoples" (Stanford Social Innovation Review).
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