trail of tears,”- During the 1800s, almost all the survivingNative Americans were either killed in one ofthe innumerable skirmishes with Europeannewcomers, absorbed into the societies of theEuropeans (through intermarriage andacculturation), or forcibly relocated west torelatively small reservations with fewresources. They were rounded up by the U.S.Army and marched to Oklahoma, along a routethat became known as this because of the more than 4,000 who diedalong the way.- After centuries of mistreatment, many NativeAmerican and First Nations people still live inpoverty, and as in all communities undersevere stress, rates of addiction and violenceare high, especially in the United States.However
in recent decades some tribes havefound avenues to greater affluence on thereservations and territories.”