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. [4]

5 days ago · Trail of Tears, in U.S. history, the forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Southeast region of the United States (including Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among other nations) to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

Nov 9, 2009 · The Trail of Tears was the deadly route used by Native Americans when forced off their ancestral lands and into Oklahoma by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Aug 3, 2023 · Twenty signed the treaty, ceding all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi to the U.S., in exchange for $5 million and new homelands in Indian Territory. More than 15,000 Cherokees protested the illegal treaty.

Feb 27, 2025 · The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation, 1831-1850, of Native Americans of the "Five Civilized Tribes" - the Choctaw, Seminole, Muscogee Creek, Chickasaw, and Cherokee - from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United …

Nov 7, 2019 · Severe exposure, starvation and disease ravaged tribes during their forced migration to present-day Oklahoma. In the early 1800s, the sovereign Cherokee nation covered a vast region that included...

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward. It also promotes a greater awareness of the Trail's legacy and the effects of the United States' policy of American Indian removal not only on the Cherokee, but also on other tribes, primarily the ...