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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 ...
A Trail of Tears map of Southern Illinois from the USDA – U.S. Forest Service. It eventually took almost three months to cross the 60 miles (97 kilometres) on land between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. [102] The trek through southern Illinois is where the Cherokee suffered most of their deaths.
Starting in 1836, the US government forced them to remove west of the Mississippi along with the other Southeast tribes to what was designated as Indian Territory. About 20,000 Muscogee members were forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the same number as the Choctaw. [54] Modern Muscogee live primarily in Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
The ride honors the thousands of people who died during the Trail of Tears ethnic cleansing and forced displacement. Beginning in the 1830s, and for decades after, the U.S. government “death ...
Short title: TRTEmap1.pdf; Image title: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail; Author: National Park Service: Keywords: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
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Beginning in 1783, the Choctaw signed a series of treaties with the Americans. The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was the first removal treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act, ceding land in the future state of Mississippi in exchange for land in the future state of Oklahoma, resulting in the Choctaw Trail of Tears.
Aug. 16—In 1903, Norma Howard's grandmother, Ipokni, walked nearly 500 miles from Mississippi to Oklahoma, where she homesteaded a small parcel of land in the dusty cow town of Stigler, in what ...