ANT 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indian Removal Act, Eminent Domain, Secure Fence Act Of 2006
Document Summary
America was built by immigrants from outside this country. Americans have migrated, by political or economic force, within this country. American social structure and economic stability has become dependent on immigration. Nearly everyone in the us is descended from immigrants. Early immigrants were along colonial lines, and were largely for religious reasons. Create american character: highly risky enterprise, fortune favors the bold". Almost no native american groups that got to keep their ancestral lands - nearly all grps were forced to migrate at some point in their history. Long history of screwing over native americans. 1838: jackson forced the migration of 16. 5k cherokee to oklahoma. 4k die, mostly from conditions and starvation. Trail of tears refers only to forced cherokee migration. Us has forcibly migrated nearly all na descendants into reservations in the midwest and sw. Between 1526-1888, ~10. 5m africans were brought to the americas, w millions upon millions of descendants enslaved.
