On May 28, 1830 ... law the Indian Removal Act. This act forced nearly 100,000 Native Americans to relocate from their ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi River to “Indian Territory ...

This time they based their appeal on an 1830 Georgia law which prohibited whites from living on Indian territory after March 31, 1831, without a license from the state. The state legislature had ...

On this day in 1830, 193 years ago ... the result of which was to move nearly 50,000 eastern Indians to Indian Territory—defined as the region belonging to the United States west of the ...

About one in 12 residents of Oklahoma is a Native American — a higher percentage than in any other U.S. state. These demographics are in large part the fruits of America's 19th-century expansion ...

When Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, it led to the forced ... on the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory, now part of eastern Oklahoma.