Answer:
The tribe of American Indians who traveled the furthest to reach Indian territory was the Cherokee tribe. they traveled 2,200 miles west of the Mississippi.
Explanation:
In 1838, the Cherokee nation was removed from its lands in Georgia to present-day Oklahoma, which resulted in the deaths of approximately 4,000 Indians.
In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nunna daul Isunyi- "The path where they wept". The Cherokee Trail of Tears was the result of the Treaty of New Echota, document based on the 1830 Act (Indian Removal Act). The treaty signed by the Ridge Party was never accepted by the leaders or the majority of the Cherokee tribe, represented in the Ross Party.
Tensions between Georgia and the Cherokees escalated with the discovery of gold near Dahlonega Georgia in 1829. It was the first gold rush in US history.
Georgia extended state laws to the Cherokee tribes in 1830, which generated legal conflict and reached the Supreme Court in 1831 as the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia. Judge John Marshall did not recognize the Cherokee nation and refused to pursue the case. However, in Worcester Vs. State of Georgia (1832), the Court ruled that the state could not impose laws on Cherokee territory. Only the federal government would have that authority.
Under the 1830 law, Congress gave President Jackson the authority to negotiate the removal of the Indians. And pressed by the dispute with Georgia, the president would force the Indians to sign the treaty of removal.
With the Treaty of New Echota and resistance to it, Jackson's successor, President Martin Van Buren organized the militias of Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Alabama to keep 13,000 Cherokees camped until they were sent to the West. Most of the deaths were due to diphtheria, infections and flu that ravaged these camps.
