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William McIntosh
He was a leader of the Creek Nation from Coweta. He was mixed with a scottish trader and Creek mother. He also spoke both Creek and English. -
John Ross
He became prinicipal chief of the Cheerokee Nation in 1827 -
sequoyah
Sequoyah, is the great Cherokee Indian that gave his people a gift that will endure forever. He created a writing system - so that the greatness of the Cherokee Nation will live forever. Sequoyah was born in 1776 near the town of Tuskeegee, Tennessee, near Chote. Sequoyah was a mixed breed Cherokee. His mother Wut-teh was a full blood Cherokee, the daughter of a Cherokee Chief. He was usually known to his white contemporaries as George Guess, or Gist (because, it is claimed, he was fathered by -
Alexander McGillivary
A Creek Indian leader in the 1780s and 1790s, Alexander McGillivray was a Southeastern Indian with a Native American mother and European father. He played off European powers he was born in day Montgomery, Alabama. -
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 is signed.
The Act which allowed the Americans to extract the Indians from their land to a designated area. -
Indian Removal Act
This law was signed by Andrew Jackson to remove the Native Americans from Georgia. Indian removal was supposed to be voluntary, but there was a lot of pressure for the Natives to most West. -
Choctaw sign the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
The Choctaw were the first Indian tribe to voluntary be removed to the western land. -
The Choctaw Indians are removed
The Choctaw Indians were removed from their lands in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. -
Indian Removal(Choctow)
under threat of invasion by the U.S. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from its land altogether. They made the journey to Indian territory on foot some bound in chains and marched double file one historian writes and without any food, supplies or other help from the government. Thousands of people died along the way. It was, one Choctaw leader told an Alabama newspaper, a “trail of tears and death.” -
Trail of Tears begins
The Trail of Tears was the mass removal of the Five Indian Tribes, because of the Indian Removal Act. -
Cherokee Nation Vs. Georgia
The Cherokee tribes took the case to court and said the Indian Removal Act of 1830 deprived them of their rights on their land. They lost the trial. -
Bye Seminoles
The Seminoles that didn't refuse to move left. -
Creek Indians
Creek Indians are removed -
Worcester Vs. Georgia
Georgia passed a law that said all whites must have a state license to live in Cherokee territory. -
Treaty of Cusseta
The treaty said the Creeks (Muscogee) ceded all land east of the Mississippi River. -
Seminole War
The Seminoles who refused to move to the west and started the war. -
Treaty of New Echota
This treaty was signed by the Cherokee nation, and lead to the forced relocation of the tribe in 1838 -
The Chickasaw move
The Chickasaw Indians voluntary move to the western land to avoid conflict -
Trail of Tears Ended
The Indians finally stop moving and ended with the Cherokees -
Cherokee are removed from their land
The Cherokee are forced to move to the western land -
The Second Seminole War ends
The Second Seminole War ends -
California gold rush
Started when James W. Marshall found gold in California. About 300,000 people, some coming in contact with Native Americans, flocked to California at this news.
