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unusual facts about Indian Removal


Hickory Ground

The members of Otciapofa tribal town formed part of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy in Alabama, prior to their forced removal to Indian Territory during the 1830s.


Gideon Lincecum

Lincecum had contact with Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Choctaw Native Americans before the Indian Removals of the 1830s began.

Matthew Arbuckle

During the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836, the majority of his troops were reassigned to General Zachary Taylor's "Army of Observation" at Fort Jessup, Louisiana, but Arbuckle managed to maintain order even as the pace of Indian removal accelerated.

Samson Occom

In the 1820s, many Brothertown Indians and some Oneida accepted payment for their land from New York State and removed to what is now known as the Town of Brothertown in Calumet County, Wisconsin.

Seminole Nation of Oklahoma

Its members are descendants of the 3,000 Seminole who were forcibly removed from Florida to Indian Territory, along with 800 Black Seminoles, after the Second Seminole War.

Stewart County, Georgia

In the 1830s under Indian removal, the federal government forced most Creek to relocate west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.


see also

Okmulgee State Park

Following the Indian Removal Act, in 1832 the Creek National Council signed the Treaty of Cusseta, ceding their remaining lands east of the Mississippi to the U.S., and accepting relocation to the Indian Territory.