What was the Tail of Years?

TheTrailofTears was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern U. S. to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory.