Don Wildman

They're diseased, cholera, dysentery, runs rampant.

Obviously, most of the victims are going to be the elders and the young, as always.

The description of this trail is one of tears and death, which is attributed to a Choctaw named Miko, a chief, after this removal.

So this does not go well at all.

Do the Choctaw and the U.S.

government learn their lessons in the following migrations?

Right.

The military takes over.

Well, when those three waves are achieved by 1833, 15,000 Choctaw have left.

That removal becomes the desired model for the removal of other tribes from other areas.

In later years to come, the Cherokee, the Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw tribes were also removed as well.

That becomes, in total, the idea of the Trail of Tears, but as I said, broken up into many of them.

Let's take another break.

Ryan, we'll come back and discuss the aftermath of the Trail of Tears for the Choctaw specifically and its lasting legacy.

We're back with Ryan Spring of the Choctaw Nation talking about the Trail of Tears.

Ryan, after three waves, the bulk of the Choctaw were displaced, relocated to modern-day Oklahoma.

What conditions awaited them there in so-called Indian Territory?

What did they find when they came, and how was that arrival and resettlement organized?

Really?

That's amazing.