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The complete Choctaw Nation shaded in blue in relation to the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Choctaw Trail of Tears was the attempted ethnic cleansing and relocation by the United States government of the Choctaw Nation from their country, referred to now as the Deep South (Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana), to lands west of the Mississippi River in Indian Territory in the 1830s ...
Short title: TRTEmap1.pdf; Image title: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail; Author: National Park Service: Keywords: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of about 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their enslaved African Americans [3] within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.
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The journey is especially significant to mentor and leader of the ride, Libby Neugin, as her great-grandmother, Rebecca Neugin, was one of the last known survivors of the Trail of Tears. This year ...
Although occasionally known as Wolf County, the county was generally referred to by its Choctaw name. Due to an agreement among clan chiefs prior to the removal to the west now known as the Trail of Tears, many of the residents of Neshoba County settled in the new Nashoba County in the Choctaw Nation after they reached Indian Territory. [1]
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act that led to the Trail of Tears—a death march that forced around 60,000 Indigenous people to leave their homes and move ...
Between 700 and 800 Native Americans stopped here during their removal to Indian Territory in a movement known as the Trail of Tears. [3] They were from several different tribes including Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole.