Ryan Spring
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So about 12,000 people made it.
So you have this other remaining contingent in Mississippi, in Alabama.
We have Choctaw people still in Louisiana and Arkansas too.
And so throughout the 1840s and 1850s, there were additional removals.
Another 7,000 Choctaw were removed.
And so, you know, there's more generations that are happening.
But these people that were in our homelands still, they weren't allowed to stay.
You know, they were burned out of their communities.
They were pushed to the fringes of where American settlers wouldn't live.
And so life in the homelands became very difficult.
We weren't even second-class citizens.
We weren't even classified as human beings.
And so Choctaw people suffered.
And which is what caused many to continue removing in the 1840s and 1850s.
Today, they were organized in the 1830s.
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians still exists.