Maggie's Farm

"While the entire impulse to erase history seems crazy to me, there is not a single reason to hold anything against Jackson."

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Native Americans would feel differently, especially descendants of the Five Civilized Tribes who were forcibly removed from their lands by Jackson and removed to Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). This despite having successfully defended their sovereign rights the "legal" way and winning in the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue.

President Jackson famously (although perhaps apochryphally) stated, "Chief Justice John Marshall has made his decision, now let him try to enforce it!" Whether he in fact said it, he continued to violate the tribes' rights unabated by the Supreme Court ruling.

That being said, most Native Americans are not into the grievance industry and probably wouldn't care one way or another about Jackson's statute in NOLA.

Another wrinkle would be that these tribes practiced slavery, had slaves and in the main sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War. (Although they had their own internal splits between tribal members who suppported the Confederacy and those who supported the Union.)

Of course, the first slaves in America were the Irish. But nobody talks about that.