Native Americas And The West Of The Mississippi River

At the start of 1830s, about 125000 Native Americas were living on more than 25 million acres of land on Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Florida, the region that would be referred to as the Deep South. However, by the end of the decade, only a few of these Native Americans remained in this region . While following the interests of the white settlers, who wanted to cultivate cotton on Indian Lands, president Jackson and the federal government forced the natives to vacate their homeland and have thousands miles walk to a designated â€Å"Indian territory† which was at the west of the Mississippi river. The journey and the route that they travelled was hindered with many adverse and sometime deadly challenges and it came to be referred to as the trail of tears from the Cherokee phrase â€Å"Nunna daul Tsuny† that directly translates into â€Å"The Trail Where They Cried† . This Population transfer led to the removal of many members of the tribes tha t did not want to assimilate into the European lifestyles. The nations of Choctaw, Muskogee, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Seminole among others were forcefully or coercively removed from their native land. By the fall of 1831, the nations of Choctaw become the first tribe to bear the blunt of the removal and thus becoming the model of ensuing removals . These tribes are in some cases referred jointly as Five Civilized Tribes. En-route to their designated land across the Mississippi river, they suffered from starvation, exposure, andShow MoreRelatedThe Louisiana Territory And How It Changed America Forever1066 Words   |  5 Pagessettled from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. With the Louisiana Purchase the U.S acquired most of that land. 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