Indian Removals 1700 to 1840

Lands Lost By Native Americans

Much, if not all of the information on this topic has been covered in previous pages. If you have been reading this series in order, you will have noted the loss of lands, the removals in Natives, in these pages: Pre-Revolutionary (Colonial) Wars, the Revolutionary War, Post-Revolutionary Wars, and Indiana Takes Shape. Our story begins and ends with the Potawatomi in Pulaski County. While we started with global ice ages, the telling of our story ends, pretty much, at the western Indiana State Line. If you want to know the sheer depth and breadth of the land lost – land once “owned” by Native Americans – take a look at a map of the world and focus on the hemisphere that encompasses North, Central and South America, including the nearby islands and archipelagos. Native Americans, until 500 years ago, owned 100% of the land. Here are a couple of visuals from the US alone. Follow this link for an interactive time-lapse map that shows the loss of more than 1.5 billion acres from Native Americans: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/06/17/interactive_map_loss_of_indian_land.html This page was going to pull information from all of the other pages, but we believe that the best thing is to say this.

Follow that interactive link to actually SEE it.
Remember that Native Americans lost more than 1.5 billion acres of land to the Europeans that invaded their habitat.