The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the third-largest tribe in the country with more than 225,000 members, is about a two-hour ...

For thousands of years, and long before Europeans came to America, the Choctaw Nation was a tribe of farmers that lived in what is now the Southeastern United States, specifically in the ...

This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole ... Then began the march known as the Trail of Tears, in which 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease ...

Despite making efforts to assimilate into American culture and even fighting alongside Americans in the War of 1812, when the 1830 Indian Removal Act passed, the Choctaw were the first to walk the ...

In 1847, the Choctaw nation of Oklahoma made a donation of ... being forced from their native lands - known as the Trail of Tears. Thousands of people died from starvation, cold and disease ...