How Did The Chickasaw River Of Tears
Native Americans have shed a river of tears, tears that have been forgotten only to end up written in history later on. The Chickasaw, a Native American tribe that first originated from Mississippi, was part many of many other tribes that suffered from the Indian Removal Act in 1830. President Jackson, demonstrated who his true colors were after he made the Chickasaw among four other groups walk in the middle of the winter into “Indian Territory”, also known as Oklahoma, “The United States promised to resume annuity payments and that the Chickasaw Nation would never become part of a new state. That promise was broken 40 years later” (Encyclopedia). With this said, after the Chickasaw injustice was brought up to the surface, they were finally