I thought this quote from National Geographic was interesting. "Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830....was premised on the idea that Indians were nomadic savages who couldn't make good use of land anyway". Thus the knowledge that Indian civilizations developed the Cahokia Mound building society in the region of the south east of the US would have dispelled Jackson's theory. Cahokia is the center of what anthropologists call the Mississippian Culture that were a "collection of agricultural communities in the American Midwest and Southeast that started around A.D. 1000 and peaked around the 13th century".
(Source: "America's Lost City" by Glenn Hodges. National Geographic January 2011.
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