answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

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.

User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

9y ago

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.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

The general borders were set by the Indian Intercourse Act of 1834

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Why were many Indian tribes driven to the Oklahoma territory?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Why was oklahoma once known as the indian territory?

Because that was the area designated by Congress to be the territory into which Indian tribes were to be relocated.


Where were Indian tribes relocated to after the trail of tears?

They moved to Indian Territory in eastern selections of present day Oklahoma.


Why did tribes migrate to Oklahoma in the early 1800s?

The Trail of Tears was the relocation and movement of Native Americans from their homelands to Indian Territory (Oklahoma).


The Indian removal act provided for the relocation of American Indian tribes east of the mississippinriver to Indian territory in present day?

Oklahoma.


During the Civil War most of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory of present day Oklahoma supported who?

The Confederates.


What was the effect of the indiam removal act of 1830?

Tribes in the East were moved into Indian Territory, what became Oklahoma. It became known as The Trail of Tears.


What two Indian tribes of Oklahoma were relative tribes to the Sioux?

The Cherokee and the Pawnee


Where did Andrew Jackson move the Indian Tribes?

Oklahoma.


What geographic location were tribes moved to in the Indian removal act of 1830?

Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, And Chickosaw. Also known as the "five civilized tribes"


What present day US state used to be the Indian Territory?

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.


What treaty forced native Americans to move to reservations?

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.


What has the author Michael O Roark written?

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