Marching Westward

Posted by Jeffrey R Gudzune Sep 27, 2009

For the next several weeks, we will take an in depth look at the removal of native communities from their lands in the southeast to reservation lands in Oklahoma. From the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek into the Trail of Tears, the American government dedicated its energy to pushing these tribes into federal lands and creating a definitive frontier against them. In our exploration of this topic we will pull back the scrim of civility that often covers America history.