INDIAN REMOVAL IN THE 19TH CENTURY - TRAIL OF TEARS At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek and Cherokee nations lived in the southeastern United States. However, by the end of the decade, very few remained. White settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land convinced the federal government to force them from their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. THE “INDIAN PROBLEM” White Americans often feared and resented the Indians they encountered because they were different and had control of land they wanted (and felt they deserved). Some officials, such as President Washington, believed the best way to solve this “Indian problem” was to “civilize” them and make them as much like white Americans as possible (convert them to Christianity, teach them English, and persuade them to adopt Europeanstyle economic practices). In the southeastern U.S., many tribes embraced these idea. However, most whites were still not satisfied. Their land was valuable and many plantation owners desired to make their fortunes by growing cotton, regardless of how “civilized” their Indians neighbors were. State governments joined in this effort to drive Indians out of the South. They passed laws limiting Indian sovereignty and even intruded on their territory. INDIAN REMOVAL Unlike Washington, President Andrew Jackson had long been an advocate of “Indian removal.” In the army, he had spent fighting the Indians and pushing them out of their land. Unsurprisingly, as president, he continued this crusade. In 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act, which gave the federal government the power to removed Indians from their land east of the Mississippi to new territory to the west, which became known as the “Indian colonization zone” (present-day Oklahoma). While the law required the government to negotiate removal treaties fairly, voluntarily and peacefully, President Jackson frequently ignored this removed many tribes by force. In the winter of 1831, under threat of invasion by the U.S. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from their land. They made the journey to Indian Territory on foot (some “bound in chains and marched double file,” one historian writes) and without any food, supplies or other help from the government. Thousands of people died along the way. It was, one Choctaw leader told an Alabama newspaper, a “trail of tears and death.” Then again in 1836, the government drove the Creeks from their land and almost 25% the 15,000 Creeks who set out for Oklahoma died. The Cherokee people were divided. Some wanted to stay and fight while others realized resisting would be hopeless. In 1838, President Martin Van Buren sent General Winfield Scott and 7,000 soldiers to expedite the removal process. Scott and his troops forced the Cherokee into stockades at bayonet point while whites looted their homes and belongings. Then, they marched the Indians more than 1,200 miles to Indian Territory. Whooping cough, typhus, dysentery, cholera and starvation were epidemic along the way, and historians estimate that more than 5,000 Cherokee died as a result of the journey. By 1840, tens of thousands of Native Americans had been driven off of their land in the southeastern states and forced to move across the Mississippi to Indian Territory. The federal government promised that their new land would remain unmolested forever, but by 1907, Oklahoma became a state and Indian Territory was gone for good. ~ SOURCE: reading adapted from History.com (http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears)

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