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The Pros And Cons Of Preventing The Extinction Of The Native American Population

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In 1793 Timothy Pickering had a suggestion for how to prevent the extinction of the Native American population, by moving them over the Mississippi (Garrison 13). Between the years of 1816 and 1850 more than 100,000 Native Americans from all over North America were forced onto certain lands of territory west of the Mississippi (O’Neill 37). They were often forced to move to territory that had little to no resemblance of where they came from; villages that roamed hills, forests and lush vegetation had the possibility of being relocated to an area that was nothing but barren desert (O’Neill 12). Many had attempted to move Native Americans, but President Andrew Jackson and his administration were the first to have their proposal legislated by
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