05/28/2026
Today is the 196th anniversary of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, in which the US granted itself permission to seize Indigenous land within its state borders and violently expel Indigenous communities west of the Mississippi.
The violent forced migration killed more than 7,000 and displaced approximately 60,000 Indigenous peoples of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations.
The United States’ genocide of Indigenous people has a lasting impact on Indigenous communities and on the dangerous narratives perpetrated across our media and woven into our colonial culture.
A people do not simply vanish. The United States systematically killed Indigenous people, targeted their access to food and agriculture, destroyed their homes, and stripped them from their land.
The collage images by Seeding team member imagine a merging of the lasting connection between Indigenous communities and their native homelands, and a hopeful future of reestablished Indigenous sovereignty, while also memorializing the souls lost along the Trail of Tears.
