Indian Territory
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Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the United States government for the relocation of Native Americans who held original
Indian Country (highlighted in red) in US claimed territories, 1834
An artist's 2016 depiction of Spiro Mounds, a Caddoan Mississippian site, as seen from the west
A Caddo village near Anadarko, Oklahoma in the 1870s
The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in North America before the arrival of Europeans.
Trail of Tears
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The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of about 60,000 Native Americans of the "Five Civilized Tribes", including their black slaves, between 1830 and 1850 by the United S
Indian Territory
…Act of 1830. The Five Civilized Tribes in the South were the most prominent tribes displaced by the policy, a relocation that came to be known as the Trail of Tears during the Choctaw removals starting in 1831. The trail ended in what is now Arkansas and Oklahoma, where there were already many Indians living in the…
The Trail of Tears memorial at the New Echota Historic Site in Georgia, which honors the Cherokees who died on the Trail of Tears
George W. Harkins, Choctaw chief
Alexis de Tocqueville, French political thinker and historian
Seminole warrior Tuko-see-mathla, 1834