Indian removal

U.S. domestic policy of ethnic cleansing Indian removalPart of Native American genocide in the United StatesRoutes of southern removalsLocationUnited StatesDate1830–1847TargetNative Americans in the eastern United StatesAttack typeDeath march, population transfer, ethnic cleansing, genocideDeaths8,000+ (lowest estimate)Perpetrators United States federal government United States Army State militias Motive Expansionist desire to acquire Native American land east of the Mississippi River (Manifest Destiny) Anti-Native American racism Part of a series onGenocide ofindigenous peoples Issues Ecocide Ethnic cleansing Ethnic relations Forced assimilation / conversion Denial Historiography Settler colonialism Genocide Indigenous response Sub-Saharan Africa Atrocities in the Congo Free State Darfur genocide 2003–2005 2023–present Effacer le tableau Gukurahundi Herero and Nama genocide Ikiza Maji Maji Rebellion Menelik II's conquests in Ethiopia Mfecane Americas Conquest of the Desert Enslavement Forced sterilization in Peru Plan Verde Brazil Yanomami humanitarian crisis Canada Beothuk extinction High Arctic relocation Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic Residential schools Guatemalan g