![]() ![]() ![]() Starting with Jeffersonian policies towards Indigenous lands and communities, Saunt traces the evolution of federal policy through the now infamous Jacksonian removal policy. Norton, 2020), historian Claudio Saunt shows how coalitions between southern slaveholders, social and religious reformers, financiers and speculators, and politicians produced what Saunt argues to be an unprecedently massive deportation initiative aimed at eliminating all Indigenous peoples living east of the Mississippi River. In his latest book Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (W. Nor was it not the only manifestation of the federal government’s hotly debated Indian Removal policy of the 1830s. ![]() The Trail of Tears, during which the United States violently expelled thousands of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral homelands in the southeast, was anything but inevitable. ![]()
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