Treaty of Doak's Stand

Category
Geography
Place
United States
Date
1820
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"For this the Indians were granted 'comparable' lands in the west, amounting to nearly thirteen million acres, in what is now the southern half of Oklahoma and part of southwestern Arkansas. . . . The Treaty of Doak's Stand was a model of Indian removal, a continuation of the policy Jackson had inaugurated with the Cherokees a few years earlier. . . . In one of the first treaties to concern itself with the educational improvement of the Indians, this single provision may have been the only 'grand and humane' feature of the entire treaty. . . . The white people of Mississippi were positively ecstatic over the treaty, as were frontiersmen all over the southwest. . . . . And what he left undone, other Tennesseans completed. His protégés, Sam Houston and James Knox Polk, fulfilled his dream--the dream of possessing 'all Spanish North America.'" [Andrew Jackson 1 p. 397-8

This event is linked to the following periods

PeriodMiner
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Category
Early Nation (U.S.)
1789
1849
United States