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This 8 page paper discusses the history of the Trail of Tears in regard to the Chicasaw and Choctaw Nations. History, brief overview, conclusions drawn. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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land, held in relocation camps with poor facilities and unsanitary conditions, then when they were already weakened by disease and hunger, forced to march thousands of miles to their new
home. The Choctaws were the first of the five great southern tribes of the United States to be moved to Oklahoma by the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830(Baird,
1973). Needless to say, the loss of life among the Choctaw and Chicasaw Indians of Mississippi were great. Although Indian removal is generally associated with the 1830 act of Congress,
the process was already beginning by the late 1700s. Pressure of white settlement led small parties of Choctaws, Cherokees, and Chickasaws to move west of the Mississippi, and by 1807
they were settling in Arkansas, Indian Territory, and east Texas(Baird, 1973). Nearly twenty thousand people belonging to the Choctaw Nation would make this forced march, along with many other tribes
and Native American Nations, on the infamous Trail of Tears. What particularly makes the Choctaw and Chicasaw Indians stand out among so many who made this trip, is that they
were the first to accept the treaty that was offered to them. Why not? Until this time, they had not really had any problems with the white settlers they came
into contact with. The Choctaw Indian Nation has a history which predates the earliest Spanish explorers to America. Many of them settled in the Mississippi areas and in some
parts of Alabama(Choctaw nation, 2002). Interestingly enough, the Choctaw were given the option of refusing to move and some did exercise this right. Those who refused to relocate with
their tribes were promised land which they could farm. However, this took many years, and decades later they were finally given the land grants that had been originally promised.
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