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60,000 Indigenous Americans forcibly relocated to Indian Territory. The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.
The Removal Act paved the way for the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of American Indians from their land into the West in an event widely known as the "Trail of Tears," a forced resettlement of the Indian population. [37] [38] [39] This forced resettlement has been characterized as a genocide. [40]
The "Farewell Letter to the American People" was a widely published letter by Choctaw Chief George W. Harkins in February 1832. [ 1] It denounced the removal of the Choctaw Nation to Oklahoma . It also marked the beginning of a large process that would remove Native Americans who were living east of Mississippi, the Trail of Tears.
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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 ...
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 ...
Chalk and Jonassohn assert that the deportation of the Cherokee tribe along the Trail of Tears would almost certainly be considered an act of genocide today. [70] The Indian Removal Act of 1830 led to the exodus. About 17,000 Cherokees, along with approximately 2,000 Cherokee-owned black slaves, were removed from their homes. [71]
Charles Rinaldo Floyd. Charles Rinaldo Floyd (October 14, 1797 – March 22, 1845) was an American planter, politician and military leader most famous for his leading the Trail of Tears out of Georgia and for his Okefenokee Campaign during the Second Seminole War. He wrote one of the first published accounts of the Okefenokee Swamp.