feb 1, 1836 - 1836: State and Federal officials remove last Creeks

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declared that the Creek nation, by making “war,” had forfeited its treaty rights.

The army would now force it to migrate west...Creek communities were invaded by military detachments, the inhabitants driven to assembly points and marched westward in batches of two or three thousand.

No talk of compensating them for land or property left behind.

March westward plagued by delays, lack of food, shelter, clothing, blankets, medical attention...
Old, rotting steamboats and ferries, crowded beyond capacity, taking them across the Mississippi.
“By midwinter the interminable, stumbling procession of more than 15,000 Creeks stretched from border to border across Arkansas.”
Starvation and sickness began to cause large numbers of deaths
Creek families were attacked by land-hungry white marauders—robbed, driven from their homes, women raped.
The army, claiming it was for their safety, removed them from Creek country to a concentration camp on Mobile Bay. Hundreds died there from lack of food and from sickness

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