USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indian reservation system established tracts of land called reservations for Native Americans to live on as white settlers took over their land.

Detailed explanation-2: -Colonial and early U.S. history The first reservation was established in southern New Jersey on 29 August 1758. It was called Brotherton Indian Reservation and also Edgepillock or Edgepelick. The area was 3284 acres. Today it is called Indian Mills in Shamong Township.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term “reservation” comes from the early days of Indian contact with the white people. The Indians gave up large portions of their land through treaties “reserving” a portion of the land for their own use. Reservations are usually small parcels of land on which Indian people were supposed to live.

Detailed explanation-4: -What was the Trail of Tears? 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 Mississippi River.

Detailed explanation-5: -A federal Indian reservation is an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States, executive order, or federal statute or administrative action as permanent tribal homelands, and where the federal government holds title to the land in trust on behalf of the tribe.