Indianness and Democracy: Andrew Jackson's "big problem".
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Andrew Jackson's coming to power as the president of the United States in 1828 constituted a major turning point regarding federal Indian policy. Jackson's radicalism, that reached its peak with the deportation of Indian populations living east of the Mississippi to present-day Oklahoma, forced Native American nations to develop strategies of resistance. Among the southeastern nations, resistance imposed the strategic use of cultural transformation and the redefinition of Indianness to try and maintain Indian sovereignty on ancestral lands. The following paper examines the ways both Andrew Jackson and Indian leaders appropriated and articulated the tenets of American Democracy to fuel their antagonistic agendas.
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