The trail of tears started when the Indian policy caused the President trouble because his supporters were from the southern and western states and favored a plan to remove all the Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River. the removals was often brutal. There was little of the natives that could defend themselves.Most Indian tribes did not want to leave their land. It was their spiritual and physical home. But the government sent in the army to force tribes to move.The US government gave them land in Oklahoma. but the natives refused to leave. They didn't want to live in Oklahoma. They wanted to live in the land where their elders grew up where they had always lived. so the natives took their case to the US Supreme Court. And
