After demanding both political and military action on removing Native American Indians<span> from the southern states of America in 1829, President </span>Andrew Jackson<span> signed ... But</span>they<span> figured without </span>Andrew Jackson<span> — the man the Cherokees called Sharp Knife — and the authorities of Georgia.</span>
The Indian Removal Policy that was taken by President Andrew Jackson forced Native Americans that lived in Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi to move to Oklahoma in 1830. This moving is now called the Trail of Tears because it had devastating results for the Native Americans, including their culture.
Native Americans were obliged to assimilate white European Culture and society, to relocate to a territory that they did not belong to and were not adapted to.
Native Americans were forced to learn how to farm and adapt to a lifestyle that they were not adapted to.
He encomienda system<span> was created by the Spanish to control and regulate American Indian labor and behavior during the colonization of the Americas.</span>
