Editing Trail of Tears (section)

==Statistics==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Southern removals
! Nation
! Population before removal
! Treaty and year
! Major emigration
! Total removed
! Number remaining
! Deaths during removal
! Deaths from warfare
|-
|Choctaw
|19,554{{sfn|Foreman|1953|p=47}} + white citizens of the Choctaw Nation + 500 Black slaves
|[[Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek|Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830)]]
|1831–1836
|15,000{{sfn|Satz|1986|p=[https://archive.org/details/afterremovalchoc0000unse/page/7 7]}}
|5,000–6,000<ref name="NOTE1">Several thousand more emigrated West from 1844 to 1849; Foreman, pp. 103–4.</ref><ref name="david_baird2">{{cite book |last=Baird |first=David |title=The Choctaw People |publisher=Indian Tribal Series |year=1973 |location=United States |page=36 |chapter=The Choctaws Meet the Americans, 1783 to 1843 |lccn=73-80708}}</ref><ref name="peterson">{{cite book |last=Walter |first=Williams |title=Southeastern Indians: Since the Removal Era |publisher=[[University of Georgia Press]] |year=1979 |location=Athens, Georgia |chapter=Three Efforts at Development among the Choctaws of Mississippi}}</ref>
|2,000–4,000+ ([[cholera]])
|none
|-
|Creek (Muscogee)
|22,700 + 900 Black slaves<ref name="fn_(c)">{{Citation |last=Foreman |title=1832 census |pages=111}}</ref>
|[[Treaty of Cusseta|Cusseta (1832)]]
|1834–1837
|19,600<ref name="Rem272">{{harvnb|Remini|2001|p=272}}</ref>
|744<ref name=":8" />
|3,500–4,500 (disease after removal){{sfn|Thornton|1991|p=85}}<ref name=":3" />
|Unknown ([[Creek War of 1836]])
|-
|Chickasaw
| 4,914 + 1,156 Black slaves<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Chickasaw |url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH033 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |website=The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525011259/https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH033 |archive-date=May 25, 2024}}</ref>
|[[Treaty of Pontotoc Creek|Pontotoc Creek (1832)]]
|1837–1847
|4,600<ref name=":8" />
|400<ref name=":8" />
|500–800
|none
|-
|Cherokee
|16,542 + 201 married white + 1,592 Black slaves<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005 |title=Eastern Cherokee Census Rolls, 1835–1884 |url=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/microfilm/m1773.pdf |publisher=National Archives and Records Administration}}</ref>
|[[Treaty of New Echota|New Echota (1835)]]
|1836–1838
|16,000,{{sfn|Prucha|1984|p=241}} but according to Indian Affairs report from 1841 there were 25,911 Cherokees already removed to Indian Territory.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs", Office of Indian Affairs, November 25, 1841. |url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/A2PBGWKCDCUSUE8A/full/AIHAF7ELMGXYOF84}}</ref>
|1,500
|4,000–8,000{{sfn|Ehle|2011|pp=291–292}}{{sfn|Thornton|1991|pp=75–93}}<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Ostler |first=Jeffrey |date=March 2, 2015 |title=Genocide and American Indian History |url=https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-3 |access-date=December 9, 2022 |website=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.3 |isbn=978-0-19-932917-5 |quote=During the removal process in the 1830s, approximately 2,000 Choctaws, 4,500 Creeks, and 5,000 Cherokees perished, mostly from intersecting factors of disease, starvation, exposure, and demoralization. Many hundreds died during the journey west, though the “trail of tears” metaphor obscures the fact that the majority of deaths occurred in internment camps while awaiting transportation west and in the first few years after relocation.}}</ref>{{R|name=Dunbar-Ortiz2014|page=113|quote=Half of the sixteen thousand Cherokee men, women, and children who were rounded up and force-marched in the dead of winter out of their country perished on the journey.}}
|none
|-
|Seminole
|3,700–5,000<ref>{{cite book |last=Swanton |first=John Reed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SEYSAAAAYAAJ&q=seminoles+florida+1844+3,136&pg=PA443 |title=Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors, Issue 73 |date=1922 |publisher=US Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |page=443}}</ref> + fugitive slaves
|[[Treaty of Payne's Landing|Payne's Landing (1832)]]
|1832–1842
|2,833{{sfn|Prucha|1984|p=233}}–4,000<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wallace |first1=Anthony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=idFiNsZghKkC&pg=PA100 |title=The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians |last2=Foner |first2=Eric |date=July 1993 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-8090-1552-8 |pages=101 |language=en}}</ref>
|250{{sfn|Prucha|1984|p=233}}–500<ref name="WallaceFoner1993">{{Cite book |first1=Anthony |last1=Wallace |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=idFiNsZghKkC&pg=PA100 |title=The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians |last2=Foner |first2=Eric |date=July 1993 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=978-0-8090-1552-8 |pages=100–101}}</ref> or 575<ref name=":8" />
|
|up to 5,500 ([[Second Seminole War]])
|}