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Bluffer’s Guide                                     USA, 1838



        The Trail of Tears







                     Did

             you know?

              TheNativeAmerican
            populationhalvedwithin
             afewyearsofEuropean
              colonisers arriving on
                    theirsoil













































        Timeline


              1829                         MAY 1830                    SEPTEMBER 1830                DECEMBER 1835

                      Gold is discovered            The Indian Removal            The Treaty of Dancing        The Treaty of New
                       in Cherokee land in           Act is passed,               Rabbit Creek is               Echota is signed.
                        Georgia, resulting in        which authorises              signed. 11 million            Despite not being
                        a gold rush. Pressure        the president to              acres of the                  approved by the
                        on the Georgia               negotiate with                Choctaw Nation are            Cherokee National
                       government to                 Native American               ceded for 15 million          Council, it becomes
                       remove Indian rights to      tribes for their              acres in the Indian           the basis for their
                     land begins to mount.         relocation.                   territory.                    forcible removal.
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