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This law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.
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First indian nation to take the trail of tears and the one that all other native removals would be modeled after.
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Most Creek indians left peaceably, a few spats of violence between Creek and white settlers were labeled the "Creek War".
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Many memebers of the Seminole nation resisted the US government. Warfare broke out between the two sides, with the out numbered and out gunned Seminoles relying on guerilla warfare. Eventual, the US government beat the Seminoles into submission.
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Uniquely, the Chickasaw exchanged there native land for financially compensation from the US government. They were paid the equivalent of $11,382,152 in modern currency.
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Cherokee Petition of Protest Of the approximately 16,000 Cherokee who began the Westward migration, between 2,000-6,000 perished before reaching their destination.
