[INDIAN REMOVAL] Plan to RELOCATE ALL INDIANS to the west of the Mississippi

Monroe, James; Calhoun, J. C.; M'Kenney, Colonel; et al. [INDIAN REMOVAL] Message from the President of the United States, transmitting sundry documents in relation to the Various Tribes of Indians within the United States, and recommending a Plan for their Future Location and Government. 18th Congress, 2d Session, no. 21. Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1825. First Edition. [11800]

Removed, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 13 pp., foxing. 4 large folding charts. Good. Pamphlet.

A report containing "the names of the Indian tribes now remaining within the limits of the different states and territories, the number of each tribe, and the quantity of land claimed by each; also, an estimate of the amount of appropriation necessary to commence the work of moving the Indians beyond the Mississippi...I herewith enclose a report from Colonel M'Kenney, to whom is assigned the charge of the office of Indian affairs, which contains all the necessary information required, except the estimate of the sum necessary to be appropriated to commence the removal."

Includes facts relating to some tribes already moved, and a discussion of exactly where all of these remaining tribes are to moved; also, warnings regarding the placing near together tribes which historically have been hostile to each other.

The folding charts display "the Names and Numbers of the different Tribes of Indians now remaining within the limits of the several States and Territories, and the quantity of Land claimed by them respectively."

The whole number of all of the Indians residing within the States and Territories was 129,266 and their lands totaled 77,402,318 acres.  

President Andrew Jackson takes the blame for following through with these plans in 1830, but the beginnings of it we see here under President Monroe.