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On this day in 1825, Congress approved the formation of the Indian Territory, clearing the way for the forced relocation of tens of thousands of members of the Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations on the Trail of Tears beginning in 1831
“Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love”
Red Cloud of the Lakota
The myth of European technological advantages over Native Americans is always overstated. They observed that Comanches could hold ten arrows in their left hand and shoot them so quickly that the last would be airborne before the first landed—far more effective than primitive guns