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The Act established a process whereby the President could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands. -
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
A civil war is often a high-intensity conflict, often involving regular armed forces, that is sustained, organized and large-scale. -
Congress created the Southern Treaty Commission to write new treaties with the Tribes that sided with the Confederacy. -
The act authorized the president to confiscate and redistribute tribal lands in the American West. -
Men and women rushed to claim homesteads or to purchase lots in one of the many new towns that sprang into existence overnight. An estimated eleven thousand agricultural homesteads were claimed. -
The Indian Reorganization Act offers federal subsidies to tribes that adopt constitutions like that of the United States and replace their governments with city council style governments