Because we were all forced down here to live where no one else wanted to be so the white man could take our natural resorces for his own.
Many Indians were driven to Oklahoma Territories during Andrew Jackson's presidency. Gold was discovered in Georgia so the land was taken away from the Indians and they were expelled.
The general borders were set by the Indian Intercourse Act of 1834
They moved to Indian Territory in eastern selections of present day Oklahoma.
The Trail of Tears was the relocation and movement of Native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
The Confederates.
The 1830 Indian Removal Act enabled the US to forcibly remove not only the so-called Five Civilized Tribes from their traditional homelands but other tribes as well to Indian Territory, which later became the state of Oklahoma.
The Indian Removal Act
Because that was the area designated by Congress to be the territory into which Indian tribes were to be relocated.
They moved to Indian Territory in eastern selections of present day Oklahoma.
The Trail of Tears was the relocation and movement of Native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
Oklahoma.
The Confederates.
Tribes in the East were moved into Indian Territory, what became Oklahoma. It became known as The Trail of Tears.
The Cherokee and the Pawnee
Oklahoma.
Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, And Chickosaw. Also known as the "five civilized tribes"
The eastern part of the state of Oklahoma is land that was designated Indian Territory, to which many indigenous tribes of the Southeastern states were relocated. An earlier form, Indian Country, included parts of several states along the Mississippi River.
The 1830 Indian Removal Act enabled the US to forcibly remove not only the so-called Five Civilized Tribes from their traditional homelands but other tribes as well to Indian Territory, which later became the state of Oklahoma.
Michael O. Roark has written: 'Nineteenth century population distributions of the five civilized tribes in Indian Territory, Oklahoma' -- subject(s): Five Civilized Tribes, Indians of North America, Population