Indian Migration

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In the begging of 1830s, nearly 125,000 Indians lived near the southeastern United States where their ancestries have lived for years. When the decade had come to ending few Indians remained in the southeastern United States. When the setters came to their land they were wanting to grow cotton on the Indians land. So for that to happen the government had to force the Indians to move elsewhere. So when they left they went to a place across the Mississippi river. That place was/is their Indian territory. This place was thousands of miles from where they had first originally lived

The Americans that lived on the western frontier did not like the Indians. They feared them. At any time they encountered they would just ignore them. The Americans

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