1831–1833
Forced removalBook sources
Choctaw removal
Mississippi to Indian Territory; Choctaw people
Removal exposed families to severe winter conditions, inadequate shelter, illness, and death. Dunbar-Ortiz includes Tocqueville’s account of displaced families crossing the Mississippi in 1831.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
This is one of several distinct removals often grouped under “Trail of Tears.”
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 6