Texas Cherokees were the small settlements of Cherokee people who lived temporarily in what is now Texas , after being forcibly relocated from their homelands , primarily during the time that Spain , and then Mexico , controlled the territory . After the Cherokee War of 1839 , the Cherokee communities in Texas were once again forcibly removed to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma . While scattered individuals remained in Texas and assimilated , surviving families who remained culturally Cherokee generally returned to the Cherokee Nation
forcibly relocated from their homelands
Trail of Tears
Texas Cherokees