Title: Living in the Land of Death
Description: "With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Territory, or, as they knew it, the Land of Death (the route taken by the souls of Choctaw people after death on their way to the Choctaw afterlife). Their first few years in the new nation affirmed their name for the land, as hundreds more died from whooping cough, floods, starvation, cholera, and smallpox. Living in the Land of Death depicts the story of Choctaw survival, and the evolution of the Choctaw people in their new environment."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Choctaw Indians, Government relations, History, Politics and government, Race relations, Relations with Choctaw Indians, Relocation, Social conditions, Treatment of Indians, United States, Indians of North America, Indians of north america, southern states
Places: Indians of North America, Southern States, United States
People: Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
Time periods: 1789-1869, 19th century, To 1865