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=== '''Removal''' === | === '''Removal''' === | ||
The Indian Removal Act was signed May 26, 1830 by President Andrew Jackson. The Act initiated a policy of removal of American Indians tribes living east of the Mississippi River to land west of the river. | |||
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| '''Cherokee''' | |||
| [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/vol2/treaties/che0439.htm New Echota] December 29,1835 | |||
| 1836-1838 | |||
| 21,500 + 2,000 Black Slaves | |||
| 20,000 + 2,000 Slaves | |||
| 2,000-8,000 | |||
| 1,000 | |||
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Jeremiah Evarts (Missionary) | |||
''Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831'' | |||
<br>''Worchester v. Georgia, 1832'' | |||
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*"Indexes to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served During the Cherokee Disturbances and Removal in Organizations From the State of Tennessee and the Field and Staff of the Army of the Cherokee Nation" (NARA M908) ({{FHL|1205384|disp=FHL film 1205384}}) ([http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17249016 Worldcat]) The compiled service records have not been microfilmed. | *"Indexes to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served During the Cherokee Disturbances and Removal in Organizations From the State of Tennessee and the Field and Staff of the Army of the Cherokee Nation" (NARA M908) ({{FHL|1205384|disp=FHL film 1205384}}) ([http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17249016 Worldcat]) The compiled service records have not been microfilmed. | ||