Global InformationTrail of Tears information
| Trail of Tears | |
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| Part of Indian removal | |
 The Trail of Tears memorial at the New Echota Historic Site in Georgia, which honors the Cherokees who died on the Trail of Tears | |
| Location | Southeastern United States and Indian Territory |
| Date | 1830–1850 |
| Target | The "Five Civilized Tribes" (Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw) |
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| Cause | Indian Removal Act signed by President Andrew Jackson |
| Deaths | Total: 13,200–16,700
See: [a] |
| Victims | 60,000 Indigenous Americans forcibly relocated to Indian Territory. |
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The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.[3]
As part of Indian removal, members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to newly designated Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.[4][3][5] The Cherokee removal in 1838 was the last forced removal east of the Mississippi and was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush.[6] The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated Indian reserve. Thousands died from disease before reaching their destinations or shortly after.[7][8][9][10][11] A variety of scholars have classified the Trail of Tears as an example of the genocide of Native Americans;[12][b] others use the term ethnic cleansing.[33]
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- ^ Prucha 1995, p. 241 note 58.
- ^ Ehle, John (June 8, 2011). Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 390–392. ISBN 9780307793836.
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- ^ Conversa, Maria (2021). "Righting the Wrongs of Native American Removal and Advocating for Tribal Recognition: A Binding Promise, The Trail of Tears, and the Philosophy of Restorative Justice". UIC Law Review. 933. University of Illinois Chicago: 4, 13.
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- ^ French, Laurence (June 1978). "The Death of a Nation". American Indian Journal. 4 (6): 2–9 [2].
- ^ Slocum, Melissa Michal (2018). "There Is No Question of American Indian Genocide". Transmotion. 4 (2): 1– 30 [4]. doi:10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.651.
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- ^ Martin Rogers, Janna Lynell (July 2019). Decolonizing Cherokee History 1790-1830s: American Indian Holocaust, Genocidal Resistance, and Survival (MA). Oklahoma State University. p. 63.
- ^ Anderson, Gary Clayton (2014). Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 3–22. ISBN 978-0-8061-4508-2.
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