On this day in 1830 — 196 years ago — President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law. The Act created a process that allowed the president to exchange lands west of the Mississippi ...

October 9 is Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day. Most Native American tribes rejected the idea of removal during the U.S. expansion westward, and they tried every strategy they could to avoid it.

Guest: Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic:The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. Claudio Saunt is the Richard B. Russell Professor in American History at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrew Jackson is referred to as the This Day in History. On this day in 1830, 193 years ago, President Andrew Jackson signed the ...