The Real History of the American Indians
The Matt Walsh Show
The Matt Walsh Show
4.7 • 27.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's no one like you, and there never will be. |
| 0:03.0 | From the producer of Bohemian Rhapsody. |
| 0:05.0 | There are many legends, but there is only one. |
| 0:11.0 | Michael, in IMAX and Cinema's Wednesday, April 22. |
| 0:15.0 | If you grew up in the United States in the past 50 years, then you know about the Trail of Tears. |
| 0:21.6 | It's one of those stories that's beaten into our collective consciousness starting in grade school. |
| 0:26.6 | We're taught in no uncertain terms that Native Americans were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands |
| 0:32.6 | by the U.S. government between 1830 and 1850, and that thousands of natives died in the process. |
| 0:39.3 | The government did this so that white men could seize Indian land and the valuable resources that it sat on. |
| 0:45.3 | In case you missed that lesson in the classroom, you might have caught it in the 2006 documentary |
| 0:50.3 | narrated by James Earl Jones or the sprawling national park with signs that note that the Indians |
| 0:56.0 | did not want to leave or the endless amount of online propaganda about it. Much of what they're |
| 1:01.4 | saying is a myth. As it turns out, none of the Cherokee Indians who traveled the Trail of Tears |
| 1:07.7 | had ever heard of the Trail of Tears. That's because from 1830 to 1850, |
| 1:12.6 | almost no one used the phrase. The term was popularized a full seven decades after the Cherokees |
| 1:18.0 | moved to Oklahoma, and even then, it wasn't truly a household name. That didn't happen until the |
| 1:22.9 | 1960s, more than a century after it took place. But it isn't just the name that's at issue here, it's the details that are so often omitted |
| 1:31.3 | from the actual story. |
| 1:33.3 | The story begins in 1830 when President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. |
| 1:38.3 | The law did not authorize the U.S. government to forcibly remove Indians or march them westward |
| 1:44.7 | against their will. Instead, the law authorized the president to negotiate legally binding |
| 1:49.2 | treaties with the various tribes, in which those tribes would be awarded compensation, |
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