San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Indigenous Peoples Day: A look at the removal of tribes in the 1830s

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.
Orange County Register

Here’s a look at tribal lands in the U.S. before there was forced removal

Monday, October 14, is Columbus Day and Indigenous People’s Day. There are around 326 tribal land areas in the U.S., compared with 574 federally recognized tribes. Of the federally recognized tribes, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Thinking about the Indian Removal Act, at the National Archives Museum and National Museum of the American Indian

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 ...
PBS

What Does It Take to be a Federally Recognized Tribe?

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Thinking about the Indian Removal Act, at the National Archives Museum and National Museum of the American Indian

The Indian Removal Act appears in two major exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian—"Nation to Nation" and the upcoming "Americans." Writer Dennis Zotigh considers the museum's ...