What the records say
- When
- 1830s
- Kind
- Expulsion or deportation
- Deaths
- 2,500
- Coordinates
- 39.83° N, 98.58° W
- Description
- attempted 1830s removal of Choctaw from present-day Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana
Choctaw Trail of Tears
Attempted ethnic cleansing of the Choctaw Nation
The Choctaw Trail of Tears was the attempted ethnic cleansing and relocation by the United States government of the Choctaw Nation from their country, referred to now as the Deep South, to lands west of the Mississippi River in Indian Territory in the 1830s by the United States government.
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