long and treacherous journey? They were brave and listened to the government, but they recieved

unproductive land and lost their tribal land.

The white settlers were already emigrating to the Union, or America. The East coast was

burdened with new settlers and becoming vastly populated. President Andrew Jackson and the

government had to find a way to move people to the West to make room. President Andrew Jackson

passed the Indian Removal Policy in the year 1830. The Indian Removal Policy which called for the

removal of Native Americans from the Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia area, also

moved their capital Echota in Tennessee to the new capital call New Echota, Georgia and then eventually

to the Indian Territory. The Indian Territory was declared in the Act of Congress in 1830 with the Indian

Elias Boudinot, Major Ridge, and John Ridge and there corps accepted the responsibility for the

removal of one of the largest tribes in the Southeast that were the earliest to adapt to European ways.

There was a war involving the Cherokee and the Chickasaw before the India

The Cherokee were fed on meager rations and suffered malnutrition. They were badly clothed for

The Cherokee started slowly changing their religion. There are many who are Jewish,

move 13,000 Cherokee in the spring of 1839 a distance of eight-hundred miles.

was passed. The Cherokee were defeated by them which caused Chief Dragging Canoe to sign a treaty in

About one-third of the original Cherokee they collected died in the holding camps and between the trek

Doublehead was later executed by Major Ridge.

for the removal slowly gained back in population in a century. The Tahlequah Agency in Oklahoma has

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