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Date c. 1830 - 1840
Location Indian Territory • United States
Participants Cherokee • Chickasaw • Choctaw • Muscogee • Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast • Eastern Woodlands Indians
Context Indian Removal Act • Seminole Wars • Proclamation of 1763

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Movement of Native Americans after the U.S. Indian Removal Act
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Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiah, painting by Charles Bird King, c. 1837.
Black Hawk
Sauk and Fox leader
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott
United States general
Ross, John
John Ross
chief of Cherokee Nation