앤드루 잭슨의 인디언 강제 추방 정책: 정착민 식민주의와 집단학살

초록

From the perspective of settler colonialism and drawing upon the raw materials of the U.S federal government on the enactment of the 1830 Indian Removal Act and the latter’s implementation, this paper puts forward three arguments on the Andrew Jackson administration’s Indian removal policies in the 1830s. First, the Jackson administration aligned with Southern politicians who wanted slavery expansion, had attempted to systematically and forcefully dispossess the Native Americans of their lands for white settlers by the federal government. Second, racialization discourse of Indians as an inferior race subject to whites’ protection helped to justify the whole process. Third, the Jackson administration had committed genocide in implementing Indian removal, especially against the Cherokee nations in the 1838 ‘Trail of Tears.’

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