October 9 is Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day. Most Native American tribes rejected the idea of removal during the U.S. expansion westward, and they tried every strategy they could to avoid it.

The Indian Removal Act, signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830, became for American Indians one of the most detrimental laws in U.S. history. Nation to Nation looks at Removal’s historic and legal ...

What happened to the Indians who stayed after the 1830 Indian Removal Act? The 1830 Indian Removal Act led to the forced relocation of nearly 50,000 indigenous people. What happened to the ones that ...