Editing Indian removal (section)

===Andrew Jackson's reputation===
[[File:Images from DOI 10.5479 sil.131145.39088002742823 02.jpg|thumb|[[Seth Eastman]]'s 1852 map of Indian tribes in the west showing reservations in the Indian Territory]]
Andrew Jackson's Indian policy stirred a lot of public controversy before his enactment, but virtually none among historians and biographers of the 19th and early 20th century.<ref name="Wilentz" /> However, his recent reputation has been negatively affected by his treatment of the Indians. Historians who admire Jackson's strong presidential leadership, such as [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]], would gloss over the Indian Removal in a footnote. In 1969, [[Francis Paul Prucha]] defended Jackson's Indian policy and wrote that Jackson's removal of the Five Civilized Tribes from the hostile political environment of the [[Old South]] to [[Oklahoma]] probably saved them.<ref name="FPPrucha" /> Jackson was sharply attacked by political scientist [[Michael Rogin]] and historian [[Howard Zinn]] during the 1970s, primarily on this issue; Zinn called him an "exterminator of Indians".<ref name="Zinn2015" /><ref name="Mann2009" /> According to historians [[Paul R. Bartrop]] and [[Steven L. Jacobs]], however, Jackson's policies do not meet the criteria for physical or [[cultural genocide]].<ref name="B&C" /> Historian [[Sean Wilentz]] describes the view of Jacksonian "infantilization" and "genocide" of the Indians, as a historical caricature, which "turns tragedy into melodrama, exaggerates parts at the expense of the whole, and sacrifices nuance for sharpness".<ref name="Wilentz" />