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1902, 57th Congress Agreement With The Cherokee Tribe of Indians:
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1902 - 57th Congress, Senate Report \" Agreement with the Cherokee Tribe of Indians\". Senate Report from the committee on Indian Affairs providing for the allotment of lands of the Cherokee Nation. 2 pages double sided = 4. Free USPS priority shipping.
Background: TheTrail of Tearswas a series offorceddisplacements of approximately 60,000Indigenouspeopleof the \"FiveCivilized Tribes\" between 1830and 1850 by theUnited Statesgovernment.Part of theIndianremoval, theethnic cleansingwasgradual, occurring over a period of nearly two decades.Members of theso-called \"Five Civilized (including thousandsof theirblack slaves)—wereforcibly removed from their ancestralhomelands in theSoutheastern UnitedStatesto areas to the west of theMississippi Riverthat hadbeendesignatedIndian Territory.The forced relocations were carriedout by government authorities after the passageof theIndian Removal Actin1830.TheCherokee removalin 1838 (the last forced removal eastof the Mississippi)was brought on by the discovery of gold nearDahlonega,Georgia, in 1828, resulting in theGeorgia Gold Rush.

The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, andstarvation while En route to their newly designated

Indian reserve. Thousandsdied from diseasebefore reaching their destinations or shortly after.

AccordingtoNative AmericanactivistSuzan Shown Harjoof theSmithsonian\'sNational Museum of theAmerican

Indian, the eventconstituted agenocide.