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The Treaty of New York, signed by the Muscogee Nation and the U.S government, was the first of many land treaties negotiated between the Native Americans and the U.S government. The treaty stated that the Muscogee would give up their land in exchange for an annual payment of fifteen hundred dollars to the tribe from the government.

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1803 - Thomas Jefferson Indigenous policy

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1803 - Thomas Jefferson Indigenous policy

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Thomas Jefferson came up with a policy intended to drive indigenous people from their land. Under this policy, the government would offer incentives to settlers who moved near Indigenous territory, keeping them from hunting and forcing them to use agriculture. They would go into debt buying the farm equipment, and cave in to the government’s attempts to purchase their land.

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Thomas Jefferson’s policy works as intended and the Choctaws sell their land to the government for fifty-thousand dollars.

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Shortly after the Mississippi state government abolished the sovereignty of the Choctaw nation, the U.S government strongarmed the Choctaw into meeting with them to negotiate a treaty. The treaty forced the Choctaw to cede over ten million acres of land to the government.

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A year after the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the Choctaws began their long trek to their new land west of the Mississippi river. The journey was made under horrific conditions; they were forced to travel during the winter with little supplies.

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The Treaty of New Echota, ordered by President Jackson, stated that the Cherokees should cede their land to the government in exchange for a couple million dollars. The treaty was signed with only a small portion of the Cherokee present and allowed thousands of white settlers to seize the Cherokee’s land, stealing from and murdering many Cherokees in the process. The majority of the Cherokees refused to leave their land.

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In 1838, the Federal government ordered the military to forcibly remove the Cherokees from the land and march the west. Many Cherokees had their homes looted and were forced into internment camps. Similar to the Choctaw’s march west, the Cherokee’s forced march took place in winter, causing the death of twenty-five hundred Cherokees, one-fourth of the entire Cherokee nation.

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In 1851, California’s governor declared a war of extinction against the Native Tribes living there. The Modoc, Yaooskin, and Klamath tribes all moved to Oregon.

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The Indian appropriation act declared that “hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation”. This act was largely motivated by economic needs. As settlers were expanding west, companies were laying down railroads hoping to industrialize what they saw as a  “savage” land.

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The Dawes act, created by Senator Henry Dawes, was created to divide Indian land up into individual plots for each of its members, therefore removing the communal system the Indigenous tribes had. Any land that was not assigned to a tribe member was taken by the U.S government and turned into homesteads.