The Muscogee Creek Nation was later forced to walk over ... a historical marker at the entrance to the park states that Andrew Jackson broke the Muscogee Nation. “That’s not true,” she ...

Just a month later, he would have to confront Andrew Jackson directly ... to our nation.” In 1823, Georgia officials, recognizing Ross’ growing power, dispatched a Creek chief to personally ...

Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation. In their defeat, the Creeks ...

Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...

Andrew Jackson had been instrumental in forcing Native Americans out of the South. Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace. The Cherokee nation was one of the "Five ...

In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...