Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory. Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he ...

We propose to state the present position of the Indian nations who occupy the important territory lying between Kansas and Texas, Arkansas and New-Mexico. The region near Chattanooga, over which ...

TAHLEQUAH, Indian Territory. I was naturally desirous, when I got to Vinita, of learning the exact condition of the country, and the things I heard were so alarming that I rather doubted them.