What is forced migration- Trail of Tears!

 Let me begin with telling you all WHAT IS FORCED          MIGRATION AND WHY?

         To begin with we will just recollect what is migration. Migration is the movement of people from one location to another. Now what is forced migration? 

           Forced Migration is one amongst the types of migration where people have to migrate, normally because their life is in danger, where the citizens are forced to move out of the country. The forced migration normally is due to natural disasters or war.  With this let me remind you all, the one forced migration among from the most important migrations in the past, the forced migration of....

THE TRAIL OF TEARS! 

The struggle itself is seen in the word! The Trail of Tears was the forced migration of the Cherokee Native Americans from their lands east of the Mississippi to an area in present-day Oklahoma. It is called the Trail of Tears because of the devastating effects on the Cherokee tribe. 

     During the Trail of Tears the Native Americans were unfairly treated and sometimes ended up paying the price of death. The Native Americans were pushed around by the trail guards forcefully.

5 tribes were living nations here who were forced to migrate out of their own native country: -

oCherokee

oChickasaw

oChoctaw

oMuskogee Creek

oSeminole