Between 1830 and 1850, the United States forcibly displaced 60,000 Native Americans living in the Southern United States under the Indian Removal Act.

While being moved, thousands would die due to starvation, disease, and exposure.

Its impact has led some scholars to classify the event as a genocide, But regardless of how it's classified,

it remains one of the greatest tragedies in American history.

Learn more about the Trail of Tears,

why it happened and why it was so deadly

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The event known as the Trail of Tears was one of the largest, but certainly not last,

mass forcible removals of native peoples in North America.

In the United States in the early 1830s, there was a group of Native American nations referred to as the five civilized

tribes. They were the Cherokee, Choktaugh, Seminole, Muskogee Creek, and Chickasaw,

all of which lived in what is today America's Deep South. Ever since European settlement

began in the Americas, there had been pressure to remove Native American tribes from areas

settled by Europeans, specifically in the southeast. And we can trace some of this back to the British

proclamation of 1763. This proclamation stated that the region between the Appalachian

Mountains and the Mississippi River would remain Native American territory. Before, and especially

after the American Revolution, this treaty was ignored, as white Americans began to settle the region.

This was accelerated in 1829 when gold was discovered

in Georgia on Cherokee land. The mines within Georgia were producing over 300 ounces of gold

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