Indigenous removal was not accidental. It was legislated.

In this episode of Committed to Misunderstanding, we examine how the United States transformed displacement into national policy. Through Supreme Court decisions, congressional law, treaty manipulation, and military enforcement, Indigenous nations were forced from their land in a system designed to convert territory into wealth.

We analyze Johnson v. McIntosh (1823), the Indian Removal Act (1830), the Treaty of New Echota, and the economic pressures behind the Georgia Gold Rush. More importantly, we examine how language reframed dispossession as “expansion” and removal as inevitability.

History is not just what happened. It is how we choose to describe it.