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The Sauk and Mesquakie people, already a fraction of their former population, forced to Oklahoma.

1869

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When the Sauk and Mesquakie communities were first forced from their ancestral lands in Illinois in 1832, they were a group of 6,000 people. After years of being forced from one location to another, there are only 900 people remaining (a decimate rate of 85%) when they "are settled" in Oklahoma in 1869. This is one of many similar examples of forced relocation.