Supreme Court rules that large swath of Oklahoma belongs to Indian reservation

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64. There were also people from other eastern tribes

who were removed to Oklahoma. It was part of an ethnic cleansing movement to relocate ALL eastern tribes to live west of the Mississippi. Parts of some of the Iroquoian tribes relocated to Oklahoma. The ones who had remained behind to fight in court helped some of their members to return because conditions were so bad in Oklahoma that people were dying of starvation and disease.

Some of the people remained in OK though, unable to make the trip back home again. They received a section of land in northeastern OK as a reservation.

There were many eastern tribes besides the 5 rhat people know about who were forcibly removed to OK in order to cleanse all the land east of the Mississippi of Native inhabitants. SCOTUS ruled against it, but Andrew Jackson defied them and sent the military in to forcibly remove them.

Jackson was a populist who could get away with defying SCOTUS. He is also one of Benedict Donald's heros.