This Day in History. On this day in 1830, 195 years ago, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act.

On May 28, 1830 ... law the Indian Removal Act. This act forced nearly 100,000 Native Americans to relocate from their ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi River to “Indian Territory ...

This time they based their appeal on an 1830 Georgia law which prohibited whites from living on Indian territory after March 31, 1831, without a license from the state. The state legislature had ...

About one in 12 residents of Oklahoma is a Native American — a higher percentage than in any other U.S. state. These demographics are in large part the fruits of America's 19th-century expansion ...