Trail of tears

1. page: short text for reading and learning new words;2. page: small quiz to check if the students understood the text / also some interesting history facts.In 1830 the Indian Removal Act was signed. In that Act, all the vast Natives’ lands east of the Mississippi river were to be exchanged for land to the west, called the “Indian colonization zone” (present-day Oklahoma). So the US goverment forced all the tribes from those lands to move, they mostly went on foot and tens of thousands men…

The Trail of Tears 1820 - 1845 Unit Study & Lapbook. Free unit study and homeschool lapbook on the Trail of Tears

Explore the story of the Cherokee Nation's removal from their native land. Students can analyze the treaty, view maps of the removal route, explore documents and visuals, and consider discussion questions to learn more about the Nation's removal experience.

A "trail of tears and death" is how a Choctaw leader described the experience of his people being forcibly removed from their tribal homelands and sent west of the Mississippi. How many people were affected?

By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Indigenous people remained

Born and raised in Claremore, Geraldine Henson Birdsbill turns 100 this Sunday.

http://my-bankruptcy-help.com/?b=Trail_of_Tears I reached this website through Google Scholar. This site includes the legal background, Choctaw voluntary removal, Seminole resistance, Chicasaw monetary removal, and Cherokee forced relocation. The site also provides information of references, documents, documentaries, and external links. It is the most helpful site I have found in explaining the Trail of Tears. There is a lot more information on this site than I have found on any other. Hope…

For our third week of class Rhiannon really wanted to do a Native American tribe. She wanted to focus on the Nez Perce (because of Kaya,the...

The Trail of Tears was one of the worst things I ever learned about growing up. This image depicts the hardship and the journey that the American Indian... The Trail of Tears

Sept. 18, 1830: Roughly 6,000 Choctaws were camped out at Dancing Rabbit Creek in Noxubee County to await a decision they had long dreaded. Emissaries from the president of the United States were there to meet them, intent on negotiating a treaty that would require the Choctaw to move to southeastern Oklahoma. Over the span […]