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[edit] NPOV edit

I am removing the phrase "the policy of genocide and racial cleansing" from the first paragraph for two reasons. First, a territory is not a policy; that makes no logical sense. Second, the question of whether the policies that led to the more-or-less forced removal of Native Americans to the Indian territory amounted to genocide or racial cleansing ought to be discussed under Indian Removal, it seems to me, or in a separate section of this article. But it doesn't belong in the opening definition of the IT, which is a geographic area. --Textorus 21:21, 30 January 2007 (UTC)