Choctaw Trail of Tears - Wikipedia
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 by the United States government.
Trail of Tears | Facts, Map, & Significance | Britannica
2024年9月24日 · The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation during the 1830s of Indigenous peoples of the Southeast region of the United States (including the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among others) to the so-called Indian Territory west of …
The Trail of Tears: Why we remember - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
2023年7月5日 · The Trail of Tears for the Choctaw people began years before the first steps of physical removal. Coordinated efforts of the U.S. government to claim Choctaw tribal lands east of the Mississippi River started as early as 1801.
Early Choctaw History - U.S. National Park Service
2024年5月3日 · The first American Indian tribe to be removed to Oklahoma, the Choctaw suffered greatly. Roughly 70,000 people were forced out of the region and at least 3,000 lost their lives on the march. This forced walk is now commemorated as the Trail of Tears.
Trail of Tears: Routes, Statistics, and Notable Events
This infographic provides a map of the principal routes used during the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation during the 1830s of Native American peoples from their lands in the southeastern U.S. to lands reserved for them west of the Mississippi River.
End of the Trail: The Trail of Tears for the Choctaws - Red River …
2023年9月4日 · When readers of American history hear terms like "Indian removal" or "Trail of Tears," it's the tragic saga of the Cherokees' that may immediately spring to mind. But actually, the Choctaws — a large tribe from Mississippi —were the first people to be confronted with the policies of forced removal.
Trail of Tears: Definition, Date & Cherokee Nation | HISTORY
2009年11月9日 · Trail of Tears. In the winter of 1831, under threat of invasion by the U.S. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from its land altogether.
Choctaw - The University of Oklahoma
The Trail of Tears was a term coined by the Cherokees about the period from 1838-1839 when they were forced to give up their land in the southeastern United States and move west of the Mississippi River. The Choctaw Nation had removals in a more varied range than the Trail of Tears proper and prefers not to use the term.
Trail of Tears - Wikipedia
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 Choctaw Trail of Tears
When the first wagons reached Little Rock , an Arkansas Gazette reporter interviewed a Choctaw chief (probably either Thomas Harkins or Nitikechi) who was quoted as saying the Choctaw removal had been “a trail of tears and death.”