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Leave Hamilton and Replace Jackson

Created by S.F. on June 24, 2015

Leave the upstanding and influential Hamilton on the $10 bill and instead replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Nancy Ward ( or Nanyehi) a prominent Cherokee woman who believed in peaceful coexistence with the European-Americans and helped her people as peace negotiator and ambassador. Nanyehi was born around 1738 in the Cherokee capital, Chota (Cherokee: “City of Refuge”) in what today is known as Monroe County, Tennessee.

In contrast to the near genocidal actions taken by Jackson toward the Cherokee and other native Americans as highlighted by the Trail of Tears. Even though it meant defying a supreme court order to do so.

Read more about her on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Ward

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