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1819 BCE
The trail of tears
It was, one Choctaw leader told an Alabama newspaper, a “trail of tears and death." -
The Indian Removal Act
letting the president have access to land in the west within borders. -
The Civil War
they signed a peace accord ending the country's 12-year civil war -
The Reconstruction Treaties
A thing to free the slaves -
The Oklahoma Land Rush
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of former Indian Territory, which had earlier been assigned to the Creek and Seminole peoples. -
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. -
The Indian Reorganization Act
The Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934, or the Wheeler–Howard Act, was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of American Indians in the United States. It was the centerpiece of what has been often called the "Indian New Deal"