American Indian Trails of the West

Oklahoma’s Trail of TearsThe history of the state’s Indian Nations is celebrated at world-class tribal centers. The state of Oklahoma, with its 39 federally recognized tribes, is rich in Native history and culture. Following the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Oklahoma Indian Territory was the destination of many exiled tribes—often as prisoners-of-war— from their native lands located elsewhere in a budding United States. The Cherokee homeland in the 1700s occupied some 80 million acres in p