The Trail of Tears is the name given to the forced movement of the peoples of the Cherokee , Muscogee , Seminole , Chickasaw , and Choctaw nations out of their home , walking to the Indian Territory under President Andrew Jackson to make their homelands available to settlers . This was a comparable experience of rejection from long time homelands , with the difference that these tribes never returned home , but were given reservations , ever-shrinking , in a place and climate unlike their historic lands
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Long Walk of the Navajo