This Land Is Not Your Land
Apr 14, 2021
3 minutes
By Andrea Guzman and Piper McDanielBy Andrea Guzman and Piper McDaniel
1783: The United States, newly victorious in the Revolutionary War, begins to press for ownership of and access to Indigenous lands, ultimately seizing 1.5 billion acres over the next century.
The Indian Removal Act allows the government to seize the lands of Native peoples in the East and South in exchange for a “colonization zone” west of the Mississippi River.
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