USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1831, nearly 16, 000 members of the Cherokee Nation were forced under armed guard to leave their native lands in the southeastern United States to trek more than 1, 000 miles to what eventually would become the state of Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-2: -Between the 1830 Indian Removal Act and 1850, the U.S. government used forced treaties and/or U.S. Army action to move about 100, 000 American Indians living east of the Mississippi River, westward to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nearly 17, 000 Choctaws made the move to what would be called Indian Territory and then later Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-4: -Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk hundreds of miles to a specially designated “Indian Territory” across the Mississippi River.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Shawnee and Delaware ceded lands in Missouri for land in Kansas. The Kaskaskia and Peoria ceded lands in Illinois and Missouri. The small nations of Stockbridge, Munsee, Brotherton, and New York Oneida ceded lands. These nations in particular relocated in the northeast corner of Indian Territory.