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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 and their enslaved African Americans [3] within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into law on May 28, 1830, ... (1837–1841) more than 60,000 Native Americans [4] from at least 18 tribes [5] ...
On September 27, 1830, the Choctaw signed the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek and became the first Native American tribe to be removed. The agreement was one of the largest transfers of land between the US government and Native Americans which was not the result of war.
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 ...
During Pontiac's War, 15 settlers working in a field near Fort Cumberland were killed by Native Americans. 15 (settlers) [126] 1764: June 14: Fort Loudoun: Pennsylvania: During Pontiac's War, 13 settlers near Fort Loudoun were killed and their homes burned in an attack by Native Americans. 13 (settlers) [126] 1764: July 26: Enoch Brown school ...
Many Native Americans viewed their troubles in a religious framework within their own belief systems. ... "Of the 80,000 Native people who were forced west from 1830 ...
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was a treaty which was signed on September 27, 1830, and proclaimed on February 24, 1831, between the Choctaw American Indian tribe and the United States Government. This treaty was the first removal treaty which was carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act.
Gibson, Arrell Morgan. "Native Americans and the Civil War," American Indian Quarterly (1985), 9#4, pp. 385–410 JSTOR 1183560; Minges, Patrick. Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855–1867 (Routledge, 2003) [ISBN missing] Reese, Linda Williams.