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March 11 - U.S. Bureau Of Indian Affairs formed by Secretary Of War John C. Calhoun without authorization from Congress .

April 15 - to defend the Cherokee s' possession of their land, chief John Ross petitions Congress, fundamentally altering the traditional relationship between an Indian nation and whites.

November 5 - Stephen Van Rensselaer establishes the Rensselaer School, which is today known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world.

November - Andrew Jackson receives more popular votes than John Quincy Adams in the U.S. Presidential Election .

votes in the election, the United States House Of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment To The United States Constitution ).

Iowa Tribe removed to a Reservation in Kansas .

Quapaw cede a considerable tract between the Arkansas and the Saline River .

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