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Approximately 300 Muscogee die in the steamboat Monmouth disaster on the Trail of Tears in the United States.
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Muscogee
Indigenous people from Southeastern Woodlands
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy, are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands in the United States. Their historical homelands are in what now comprises southern Tennessee, much…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Steamboat Monmouth disaster
300+ Muscogee killed, 1837
The steamboat Monmouth disaster of October 31, 1837, killed approximately 311 Muscogee people who were being forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland in the southern United States to the Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. The deaths were the result of a nighttime…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Trail of Tears
Forced relocation and ethnic cleansing of the southeastern Native American tribes
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of about 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their black slaves within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
October 31
Day of the year
October 31 is the 304th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 61 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)