Is He the Father?

Andrew Jackson the people's president is what he is called. Made out to be a hero in most historians eyes, but is he really. He wasn't the hero that everyone thought he was. The Indian removal is a perfect example of that. Jackson said if they stay near the white culture to long that they will lose their culture.  He doesn't want it to happen so in order to do it they need to be separated from the colonization of the United States. Jackson's problem with the Natives where they were was that he believed the Cherokee and many other tribes were wasting the and by living in the tree's instead of colonizing the land. This cartoonist shows Andrew Jackson cradling two Native Americans. Jackson thought of himself as the father of the Natives. He said he was protecting the Natives by moving them away from the colonial culture that was surrounding them. The cartoonist portrayed Jackson like this because this is how he was seen, the savoir of all people, even the natives.In my opinion Andrew Jackson is not the democratic ideal. A democrat is someone who one who practices social equality according to Merriam Webster Dictionary, and him forcing the Natives to move from their homes so the land can get colonized is not showing social equality. All in all he does not deserve the name, "The People's President".