Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears started in 1836, as a result of the Treaty of New Echota. This treaty, which was adopted by the United States Government, sent nearly six hundred Cherokee Native Americans on a journey from their home in Georgia, through Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, ending up in Oklahoma. This was just the beginning of what was known as the Trail Of Tears. Other tribes from the eastern United States were soon forced to leave their homes, and head to reservations in present day Oklahoma. Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw Native Americans were all victims of the United States government’s policy of dealing with the Native Americans. The first wave of Native Americans to go to Oklahoma did not have such a rough time as the later groups did. For example, the Seminole Native Americans made much of their trip from Florida over the Gulf of Mexico into present day Louisiana, and then north into Oklahoma. Not all Native American populations were so quick to leave, the majority of the Cherokee peoples in the east wanted to stay among their native land. The ones that did choose to stay suffered very cruel treatment. Some Cherokees were taken from there homes, and families and put in stockades for mon
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