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Portrait of Andrew Jackson, who earned the top spot on our list of worst U.S. presidents.
Portrait of Andrew Jackson, who earned the top spot on our list of worst U.S. presidents.
Indian-Killer Andrew Jackson Deserves Top Spot on List of Worst US Presidents
Andrew Jackson tops list of worst presidents for Natives
Gale Courey Toensing February 20, 2017
Unlike the statement in Indian Country Media Networks Best Presidents for Indian country story, its a bit easier identifying the worst presidents for Indian country. Five tend to stand out with the majority of the rest huddled together after that. Here are our nods to the presidents who did more harm than good for Native Americans while in office.
Andrew Jackson: A man nicknamed Indian killer and Sharp Knife surely deserves the top spot on a list of worst U.S. Presidents. Andrew Jackson was a forceful proponent of Indian removal, according to PBS. Others have a less genteel way of describing the seventh president of the United States.
Andrew Jackson was a wealthy slave owner and infamous Indian killer, gaining the nickname Sharp Knife from the Cherokee, writes Amargi on the website Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice. He was also the founder of the Democratic Party, demonstrating that genocide against indigenous people is a nonpartisan issue. His first effort at Indian fighting was waging a war against the Creeks. President Jefferson had appointed him to appropriate Creek and Cherokee lands. In his brutal military campaigns against Indians, Andrew Jackson recommended that troops systematically kill Indian women and children after massacres in order to complete the extermination. The Creeks lost 23 million acres of land in southern Georgia and central Alabama, paving the way for cotton plantation slavery. His frontier warfare and subsequent negotiations opened up much of the southeast U.S. to settler colonialism.
Andrew Jackson was not only a genocidal maniac against the Indigenous Peoples of the southwest, he was also racist against African peoples and a scofflaw who violated nearly every standard of justice, according to historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown. As a major general in 1818, Andrew Jackson invaded Spanish Florida chasing fugitive slaves who had escaped with the intent of returning them to their owners, and sparked the First Seminole War. During the conflict, Jackson captured two British men, Alexander George Arbuthnot and Robert C. Ambrister, who were living among the Seminoles. The Seminoles had resisted Jacksons invasion of their land. One of the men had written about his support for the Seminoles land and treaty rights in letters found on a boat. Andrew Jackson used the evidence to accuse the men of inciting the Seminoles to savage warfare against the U.S. He convened a special court martial tribunal then had the men executed. His actions were a study in flagrant disobedience, gross inequality and premeditated ruthlessness he swept through Florida, crushed the Indians, executed Arbuthnot and Ambrister, and violated nearly every standard of justice, Wyatt-Brown wrote.
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ask indigenous people about "Indian Killer" andrew jackson--indian removal act, trail of tears. . . (Original Post)
niyad
May 2017
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2naSalit
(86,308 posts)1. I know of many...
who won't take change or accept the $20 bill because he's on it.
Vile monster he was.
niyad
(113,029 posts)2. a most excellent piece of resistance.
maxsolomon
(33,232 posts)4. And * loves him
hung his portrait up in the white house.
SMH.
niyad
(113,029 posts)5. apparently, there is no bottom to his well of ignorance and malice.
maxsolomon
(33,232 posts)6. President Stigginit
It's going to be a long 4 (or 8) years. The world won't soon forgive us for this mistake.
niyad
(113,029 posts)7. assuming we last that long.
maxsolomon
(33,232 posts)8. oh, we will
people persist. the pendulum will swing back.
I'm cynical, but I'm not hyperbolically pessimistic!
niyad
(113,029 posts)9. "when the button is pushed, there's no running away"