USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Not all tribal elders or tribal members approved of the ways in which many in the tribe had adopted white cultural practices and they sought refuge from white interference by moving into what is now northwestern Arkansas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Cherokee were given two years to migrate voluntarily, at the end of which time they would be forcibly removed. By 1838 only 2, 000 had migrated; 16, 000 remained on their land. The U.S. government sent in 7, 000 troops, who forced the Cherokees into stockades at bayonet point.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1838 and 1839 U.S. troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The removal, or forced emigration, of Cherokee Indians occurred in 1838, when the U.S. military and various state militias forced some 15, 000 Cherokees from their homes in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee and moved them west to Indian Territory (now present-day Oklahoma).