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Where were the five civilized tribes forced to relocate?

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By 1850, some 60,000 members of these tribes were settled in the Indian Territory under the Removal Act of 1830, which provided that this territory was to be held communally on the condition that the tribes surrendered certain land rights east of the Mississippi River.

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