The Expulsion of Native Americans
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Claudio Saunt joined me on the podcast to discuss the United States' expulsion of Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by Washington’s small but growing bureaucracy. But as the policy unfolded over the next decade, thousands of Native Americans died under the federal government’s auspices, and thousands of others lost their possessions and homelands in an orgy of fraud, intimidation, and violence.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to Dance Know's History here. I've got a great episode for you today |
| 0:03.5 | we're talking about a radical president swept a power on a heavy mix of anti-establishmentism and |
| 0:09.1 | racism. You're not going to believe this story. I'm of course talking about President Jackson |
| 0:14.7 | in the early 19th century. Of course I am. This president was responsible for an extraordinary |
| 0:21.4 | removal, Indian removal, where huge numbers of Indigenous so-called Indian tribes were |
| 0:28.8 | removed from the East Bank of the Mississippi and sent west to a astonishing tale. And here to |
| 0:36.1 | tell us about it is Claudio Sondt, he's professor of history at the University of Georgia. You're |
| 0:41.0 | going to really enjoy this one. If you want to watch 19th century history programs, US and UK, |
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| 1:05.4 | each of those first three months. In the meantime everyone enjoy his Claudio Sondt. |
| 1:16.9 | Claudio thank you very much coming on the podcast. My pleasure. Just before we talk about the |
| 1:21.6 | gigantic force migration of 1830 onwards, draw me a little map of how much the US expand on that |
| 1:26.4 | East Bank of the Mississippi from the date of independence up to the early 19th century. |
| 1:32.4 | What's extraordinary is that for the first 150 years of colonization, the colonists are really |
| 1:40.5 | pressed against the East Coast and it takes well over a century for them to expand into the interior |
| 1:47.9 | of the continent and it takes a couple centuries for them to cross the Appalachian mountains into |
| 1:52.6 | the interior. By the early 19th century, still the majority of the colonial or US population |
| 2:00.0 | is still along the East Coast, concentrated in the Northeast, especially west of the Appalachians. |
| 2:06.8 | There are some small settlements, but it's still largely indigenous land. We think of the |
| 2:13.3 | United States today as extending coast to coast, but it's far different in the early 19th century. |
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