

government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee people west of the Mississippi.

Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians.
