President Andrew Jackson was called "The Great White Father" by the first people of the nation. In 1830, he signed into law The Indian Removal Act, henceforth The Trail of Tears. In 1851, President Millard Fillmore and Congress sign into law The Indian Appropriation Act and created Indian reservations.
An Indian reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Native tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than by the state government of the United States in the state where they are physically located.
I am wondering whether President Donald Trump would use public domain and claim Native reservation lands near the Mexican border and build his wall and forcibly remove and create another Trail of Tears. The Native Americans, the first people of the nation, have endured historical trauma since 1492.
Sharon Shuck
Duluth
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The writer is an Ojibwe elder.
