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Trail of Tears in Depth

The document discusses the aftermath of the Trail of Tears and the establishment of Indian reservations in Oklahoma through the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851. Despite the creation of reservations, white settlers continued to encroach on Native American lands, leading to conflicts and wars. Today, there are over 300 Indian reservations in the U.S., which are governed by tribal councils and face challenges in living conditions that the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service aim to address.

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Trail of Tears in Depth

The document discusses the aftermath of the Trail of Tears and the establishment of Indian reservations in Oklahoma through the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851. Despite the creation of reservations, white settlers continued to encroach on Native American lands, leading to conflicts and wars. Today, there are over 300 Indian reservations in the U.S., which are governed by tribal councils and face challenges in living conditions that the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service aim to address.

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® Related Reading - Trail of Tears

The American Indians’ troubles didn’t end with the


Trail of Tears. Even after white settlers forced eastern
tribes to move west, a second wave of settlers
targeted their new land!

Then in 1851, Congress passed the Indian


Appropriations Act, a law that created the first
reservations in the present-day state of Oklahoma.
The law was supposed to protect the Indians by
setting aside, or “reserving,” pieces of land for each
tribe. But even the creation of these reservations
couldn’t stop the white settlers’ westward expansion.

President Ulysses S. Grant continued the removal policies of former presidents Andrew Jackson and
Martin Van Buren. At the same time, he created more reservations and put religious officials in charge of
running them, all in an effort to “civilize” the Indians by converting them to Christianity.

Many tribes decided that enough was enough, and refused to be pushed around any longer. When the U.S.
Army was sent in to enforce the relocations, bloody wars broke out, several of which lasted into the 1880s.

Over the next few decades, government policies toward American Indians changed, and legal
discrimination against them slowly faded away. But the reservations created during this time period
remained.

Today, there are over 300 Indian reservations in the United States (pictured), covering over 200,000 square
kilometers of land—that’s about 2.3 percent of the country!

These reservations have their own special laws, and are governed by tribal councils. Living conditions are
often poor, so two government agencies—the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service—
have been given the job of improving education, health care, and other important services for the
Americans who call these places home.

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