"As Long as Grass Grows and Water Runs" is an article written by Howard Zinn. I found the article from "A People's History of the United States". Howard Zinn claims to show a series of controversial facts about the Revolutionary war and Indian removal. Howard Zinn states the main historical facts of the early 1820's and all 120,000 Indians that lived east of the Mississippi. Jackson was a land speculator, merchant, slave trader, and the most …showed first 75 words of 566 total…

…showed last 75 words of 566 total…affords sincere pleasure to apprise the Congress of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi". I mean the Indians found the land before we ever knew it existed and for a president to say such a thing is frowned upon in my standards. If anything we should have at least shared and learned from one another instead of taking their land and respect from them.