The Great Removal

How did The Five Civilized Tribes come to live in Oklahoma?

The Five Civilized Tribes are the Choctaw, Creek (Muskogee), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Cherokee tribes.  They are held in great esteem in Oklahoma.  People here are proud to being even a thirty-second part of one these tribes.

The Great Seal of the State of Oklahoma features The Five Civilized Tribes.  It was adopted from the Great Seal of the State of Sequoyah that The Five Civilized Tribes proposed in 1905 AD.  The blue on the flag of Oklahoma came from the flag used by the Choctaw Nation in the Civil War.

The Five Civilized Tribes have built all kinds of industries here - like producing high-tech military equipment - that goes beyond the cigarettes and casinos that most people think of.  They have produced notable artists, educators, statesmen, entertainers, athletes, and members of every noble profession.  They have fought bravely in the defense of the United States and have done Oklahoma proud.

However, they did not live near Oklahoma when Europeans first made contact with them.  They lived in the southeast United States, from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean.  So, how did these five great tribes come to live in Oklahoma?

This is best answered by answering some other questions about The Five Civilized Tribes.

What happened to the Five Civilized Tribes after George Washington ceased to be President?
 

The next President, John Adams, continued to follow the six point plan of George Washington.  He treated the Five Civilized Tribes as sovereign nations living within the borders of the United States.  He sent them aid for their efforts to advance their own civilizations to be on par with that of European Americans.  They were only subject to the same federal laws that applied to individual states and the terms of any treaties that were made with the federal government.

 

However,  the state governments constantly ignored the terms of these treaties.  This created ever greater tensions between these tribes and the state governments.  The worst of these by far was the government of Georgia.

Despite this, the Five Civilized Tribes made tremendous progress in adapting to living in American society, especially the Cherokee and the Choctaw.  Many of their leaders were college educated.  In fact, the largest private library of books in America was owned by one of the Cherokee chiefs.

However, things began to change for the worse when the first president from the predecessor of the Democratic party was elected.

In 1802 AD, Thomas Jefferson made a deal with the state of Georgia, for the federal government to aid Georgia in convincing the Cherokee and Creek to leave Georgia, in exchange for Georgia releasing its claims on the unorganized land to the west.  (These lands later became the states called Alabama and Mississippi.)

It was up to Georgia to negotiate with the Cherokee and Creek to buy their land.  However, most of the Cherokee Nation was not interested in selling their land, but the Creek eventually sold their land in Georgia east of the Ocmulgee River in 1805 AD.

Then in 1811 AD, a comet appeared over Creek territory.  Soon, Tecumseh, a Shawnee Chief whose name means "shooting star", came to one of the largest Creek cities.  He told the Creek there that the comet was a sign that he was to lead the Native Americans in uniting to defeat the United States.  He told them that the Great Spirit would soon send another sign to confirm this.  Not long after that, the New Madrid earthquakes, the largest earthquakes in modern history, occurred.  So many of the Creeks joined his cause.  They were called the Red Sticks.

After three years of fighting, the United States army completely defeated the army of Tecumseh.  The war was ended with a new treaty, which punished the Creek Nation for not preventing the Red Sticks from joining Tecumseh in taking up arms against the United States.  The actions of the Red Sticks was contrary to the terms of their previous treaty.  So, the Creek Nation lost the rest of its land in Georgia and most of its land in Alabama.

Many of the Creek, including almost all of the surviving Red Sticks, fled to Florida, which was under Spanish control, and joined the Seminole Nation.  This caused the Seminole tribe to triple in size by 1815 AD.

Also that year, the United States set aside about a quarter of the modern state of Arkansas for the Cherokee Nation to move to.  The United States provided assistance to any of the Cherokee Nation that moved there voluntarily.  Over the next thirteen years, about a third of the Cherokee Nation moved there on their own and formed the Cherokee Nation (West).  There were no recorded deaths on these voluntary journeys.

The Seminole tribe was recognized as the Seminole Nation when the United States acquired Florida in 1821 AD.  The Seminole Nation made a treaty with the United States in 1823 AD to remain on a really large reservation in the middle of the Florida peninsula.  (The United States did not want the Seminole to return to piracy, but the reservation land was very suitable for cattle ranching.)

The Creek Nation was scattered over the southeast United States, but the main part of the tribe was confined to a small strip of land in Alabama in a treaty that they signed in 1826 AD.

President John Quincy Adams negotiated a treaty in 1828 AD with the Cherokee Nation (West) to move from Arkansaw Territory to Indian Territory.

Then came the Indian Removal Act of 1830 AD that President Andrew Jackson, the first president from the Democratic party, primarily authored.

Why was the Indian Removal Act created?

The reasons of President Andrew Jackson for seeking passage of this act were complex.

On one hand, he had a genuine concern about the well being of the Native Americans.  He had lived among and fought along side various Native American tribes at various times.  He was concerned about their dwindling numbers, largely caused by devastating diseases that they caught from Europeans.

There were also many European Americans, who wanted to exterminate all Native Americans.  It was impossible for the Federal government to protect these tribes from such people, when they were spread out over such a large geographical area.  While these tribes fought back, they were simply outnumbered, and there was a continual influx of more European Americans moving into their vicinity.

Then there was the problem of the state governments, who did not have jurisdiction over the tribes.

However, this concern was not a concern of only President Jackson.  Many in Washington did not want to have to send Federal troops to confront the state militias that were violating the terms of these treaties.  They were concerned that once fighting began between Federal troops and a state militia, that it would lead to a civil war.  (Which it did in 1861 AD.)

These concerns about Federal troops needing to be sent in to fight with a state militia to defend the Five Civilized Tribes were exasperated, when gold was discovered in Georgia in 1828 AD.

European American prospectors were constantly going into Cherokee land to pan for gold, contrary to the treaty that had been signed.  This lead to violate confrontations, and the state of Georgia sent its militia into Cherokee lands to aid the prospectors - another violation of treaty terms.

This wave of greed that was running through Georgia, made it all but inevitable that there would soon be a military confrontation between the Cherokee and the Georgia militia.  Then Federal troops would have to be sent in to defend the Cherokee.

President Jackson also wanted to avoid this, because he had ran for president as a champion of state rights.  He believed that state law should have precedence over federal law.

In particular, he supported the claims of southern states that they should be able to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.  Sending in federal troops to protect the Cherokee from the Georgia state militia was contrary to this support of state rights.

Georgia was testing the limits of state rights.  Georgia wanted the Cherokee land in its borders, so prospectors could mine the gold, and the state could collect taxes and fees from the prospectors.  This would not just bolster the economy of Georgia, but of the surrounding states as well, and eventually benefit northern cities like New York City.

Georgia was willing to use the state militia to accomplish this, unless the Federal government would remove the Cherokee.  Georgia was even willing to have the state militia help in this removal.

So, President Jackson believed that the Five Civilized Tribes would safer, happier, and better able to develop into a more advance civilization quicker, if they were separated from European Americans and these state governments.

Although he had previous advocated relocating these tribes just across the Mississippi River to Arkansaw Territory, he realized that this was still too close to European Americans.  It was evident that the Five Civilized Tribes would have the same problems as they had in other states, when Arkansaw Territory became a state.

So, between the concerns of President Jackson, and the greed of many congressmen, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 AD was passed by a narrow margin and signed into law.

The act provided for the President of the United States to negotiate terms for a peaceful removal of the Five Civilized Tribes to Indian Territory via a land swap and payment for infrastructure improvements in their new lands.

However, things did not go as smoothly as President Jackson had envisioned. 

How was the removal of the Choctaw Nation to Indian Territory conducted?

The Choctaw Nation was having humiliating laws passed upon them by the state of Mississippi, even though they were not counted as citizens, and not allowed to have representation in the state legislature.  It was legislation without representation - the very same injustice that caused the United States to separate from Great Britain.

So, the Choctaw tribe made a treaty that allowed most of the tribe to move to a similar size piece of land in southern Indian Territory in 1831 AD.  This was to be done in three phases over a period two and a half years.

However, the federally supervised move to Indian Territory was done with such incompetence that the Choctaw Nation lost about a quarter of the tribe in these moves - largely due to disease.  One of their chiefs called the entire experience "a trail of tears and death".   This led to any path used for a federally supervised removal of Native Americans be called, "The Trail of Tears" in American culture.

Instead of learning from the experience, the federal government decided to use the removal of the Choctaw Nation as a model for all future removals of Native American tribes.

How was the removal of the Creek (Muskogee) Nation to Indian Territory conducted?

The Creek Nation signed a treaty in 1832 AD that divided the Creek land into individual allotments.  Each individual could decide to sell their allotment and move to Indian Territory, or remain on it and be subject to the laws of the state of Alabama.

However, the state of Alabama never really gave any chance for most of the individual members of the Creek tribe to decide for themselves.  European Americans started immediately invading these allotments and claiming them for their own.  Some members of the Creek tribe went ahead with selling their allotment and moving to Indian Territory to escape this mistreatment.  When other members of the Creek fought back, the government of Alabama sent the state militia to protect the European American violators of the treaty.

So, the Creek Nation decided to just move to Indian Territory, where it would receive a much larger piece of land, in 1834 AD.

However, some of the Creek Nation decided to stay behind and fight for their right to remain in Alabama.  They were eventually captured in 1836 AD, and force to relocate to Indian Territory.  The Creek Nation lost about a quarter of their tribe during these journeys to Indian Territory.

How was the removal of the Seminal Nation to Indian Territory conducted?

In 1832 AD, a treaty was negotiated with the Seminole Nation in Florida to move to Indian Territory, if the land was found to be suitable.  They were to live along side the Creek Nation.

The Seminole were concerned that the Creek Nation would take retribution upon them, because many of them were deserters from the Creek tribe.  So, seven of the chiefs went to Indian Territory to see if this was a suitable arrangement for the Seminoles.

The seven chiefs found the land suitable, and the members of the Creek tribe in Indian Territory assured them that the Seminole were welcome to live among them.  So, they signed a treaty for the Seminole Nation to move to Indian Territory in 1833 AD.

However, when they arrived in Florida, most of these chiefs renounced the treaty.  They stated that they did not have the authority to make an agreement for the entire tribe.  Still, some of the Seminoles went ahead and relocated to Indian Territory in 1834 AD.

In 1835 AD, the commander of Fort King read a letter from President Jackson to the remaining Seminole Chiefs.  The letter stated, that if the off-reservation Seminole did not move voluntarily per the treaty that they had previously made, then the US government would move them by force.

All but five of the most important Seminole chiefs agreed to move at the end of the year.  So, in 1836 AD the majority of the Seminole Nation moved to Indian Territory.

However, the remaining part of the off-reservation Seminoles began waging a war against the European Americans at the end of 1835 AD.  This war lasted until 1842 AD.

All captured Seminoles were treated as prisoners of war and forced to relocate to Indian Territory before being unshackled.  About three hundred Seminoles had stayed on the reservation, so they were allowed to remain there.  The war had been very expensive for the US to wage, and it was not worth it to pursue the remaining two hundred members of the off reservation Seminoles into the Everglades.

This however did not lead to peace.

European Americans kept trying to squat on the Seminole Reservation until President James Polk put a twenty mile (32 km) barrier around it in 1845 AD.

The Seminole eventually began to fight back, with groups of off reservation Seminoles attacking European American families.  The State of Florida then began making efforts to have all of the Seminole removed, and generally did what it could to make life uncomfortable for them.

So, in 1850 AD, seventy-four members of the Seminole tribe agreed to moved to Indian Territory via a water route that went through New Orleans.

In 1852 AD, sixteen off reservation Seminoles were captured and sent to Indian Territory as prisoners of war.

Finally, in 1854 AD, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, decided to use force to remove the off reservation Seminole out of Florida.

The next year, another war between the United States and the Seminole Nation began.  For the next two years, the efforts of the United States army was largely ineffective, with it taking many more casualties than the Seminoles.

However, 1857 AD, a new commander, Loomis, arrived, who employed a new tactic using metal alligator boats to transport Marines.  This allowed him to effectively pursue the Seminole into the swamp.  He managed to capture many of the women and children of the off reservation Seminole as well as destroy their crops and villages.

Finally, a delegation of Seminole chiefs from Indian Territory came to Florida, and met with the chiefs of the off-reservation Seminoles in 1858 AD.

They informed them that the Seminole had been given their own tribal land in Indian Territory the previous year, which was separate from the Creek Nation.  Loomis also offered substantial money to each Seminole that decided to move to Indian Territory.

So the two main off-reservation chiefs agreed, and the last one hundred and sixty-three off-reservation Seminoles were moved to Indian Territory by the same water route as previous groups.

This left about 300 off-reservation Seminoles in Florida, in two small bands of less than thirty men on opposite ends of the state, plus single families scattered throughout Florida.

The Seminole Nation had no recorded losses in transit to Indian Territory, but it lost about a sixth of the tribe in Florida during twenty-six years of resistance to removal.

How was the removal of the Chickasaw Nation to Indian Territory conducted?

The Chickasaw Nation was told by the state of Mississippi that it was subject to state law in 1830 AD.   The state of Mississippi refused to recognized their treaty rights to operate as a sovereign nation.

So, the Chickasaw met President Jackson in Franklin, Tennessee and made a treaty to move to Indian Territory, if the land offered was suitable for the needs of the tribe.  They sent representatives to survey the land offered in Indian Territory.

The representatives returned in two years, and said that the land was not suitable.

However, the state of Mississippi was unwilling to do anything about the continual harassment that European Americans were heaping on the Chickasaw Nation.

So, the Chickasaw Nation made a new treaty in 1832 AD, where they agreed to move on their own to Indian Territory for about three million dollars.  This was followed by five years of internal fighting over how to accomplish their movement.

Finally, in 1837 AD, they paid the Choctaw about half a million dollars for the western part of their territory, and migrated to their new home in Indian Territory.  They lost about a sixth of their tribe on the journey - almost completely from disease.

They did not receive their payment of three million dollars from the federal government until right before the Civil War broke out in 1861 AD.

How was the removal of the Cherokee Nation to Indian Territory conducted?

When the Indian Removal Act was signed into law in 1830 AD, about one third of the Cherokee Nation (East) took the offer and moved to Indian Territory - losing hardly anyone on the journey.

The rest of the Cherokee Nation was divided about what to do by 1832 AD.  Many of the most educated pressed for negotiating the best deal the Cherokee Nation could get and remove the entire tribe to Indian Territory.  However, Chief Ross convinced the majority to not move.

Still, Chief Ross tried to negotiate a better deal with the United States government twice over the next two years, but both deals were rejected.

In 1834 AD, Chief Ross had made political maneuvers to silence his opposition within the Cherokee Nation (East).

In 1835 AD, Chief Ross made another offer for the Cherokee Nation to move voluntarily to Indian Territory for a sum of twenty million dollars.  (This was half the price of the Seminole War that ended in 1842 AD.)  Again, the United States and Georgia rejected the offer.

So, in 1835 AD, the opposition went and made a treaty for the removal of the Cherokee Nation (East) with the United States.

Chief Ross then had laws passed by the Cherokee Council against individuals abiding by the treaty.

However, by 1837 AD over two thousand members of the Cherokee Nation (East) realized the inevitable, so they took the assistance from the United States government offered, and relocated to Indian Territory with practically no losses on the journey.

In the spring of 1838 AD, the United States army rounded up about two thousand, eight hundred members of the Cherokee Nation (East), and forced them to march to Indian Territory.  About six hundred died on the forced march.

(Another one thousand two hundred escaped to the mountains outside of the Cherokee Nation (East).  They formed the Eastern Band of the Cherokee.)

The army stopped the removal in order to figure out how to conduct the removal better.  So, it rounded up the remaining twelve thousand members of the Cherokee Nation (East) into internment camps.  About three hundred and fifty members of the Cherokee Nation (East) died in the internment camps. 

The Cherokee Council realized the inevitable and asked for the removal to wait until summer was over.  When September came around, Chief Ross started negotiating to be in control of everything involving the removal - including control of the money.  After two more months of negotiating, the Army agreed to let the Cherokee Council be in charge of the removal.  So, the last of the Cherokee Nation wagon trains left the last internment camp in November of 1838 AD.

This late departure proved disastrous for the Cherokee Nation (East) as they went overland in wagon trains to Indian Territory as far north as Illinois in a particularly harsh winter.

By the time that the Cherokee Nation (East) finished arriving in Indian Territory in late March of 1839 AD, they had lost about two thousand, two hundred members on the journey.  This final removal over land in the winter is what the Cherokee Nation today refers to as "The Trail of Tears".

However, Chief Ross, the Cherokee Council, and their families went on a river boat that he purchased out of the removal money.  Of those on the river boat, only his wife died on the journey.

After the arrival of the Cherokee Nation (East) in Indian Territory, there was soon a war between it and the Cherokee Nation (West).  About everything that the Cherokee Nation (West) had built was destroyed.  So, most of the Cherokee Nation (West) members left Indian Territory to go Mexico or California in 1849 AD.

Those that remained in Indian Territory formed the Keetoowah Band of the Cherokee in 1859 AD.

 

By the time the Civil War was over in 1865 AD, the the Cherokee Nation (East) had many members more die at the hand of other members.  Also, many of their supporters of the Union had to flee to Kansas and many of their supporters of the Confederacy had to flee to Texas.

 

The Cherokee Nation (East) that remained in Indian Territory became known simply as the Cherokee Nation.  This is the tribe is considered to be part of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma.

What happened to the Five Civilized Tribes after the Great Removal?

The Five Civilized Tribes had some things in common with other immigrants.

 

Like European immigrants, most immigrated due to adverse circumstances, but others immigrated voluntarily for the hope of a better future.  Like European immigrants, they were able to bargain to some degree about when they would immigrate and what kind of assistance they would get to start over in their new land.

Like most African immigrants, the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory were not given an option about the location of the land that they would immigrate to. 

However, the immigration of all Native Americans was different than that the immigration of all other Americans in some important ways.

The immigration of Native Americans was entirely coerced by American presidents and negotiated with the American Congress.  Their immigration was carried out under guard by the American army.  Their migration was not to America from another land, but entirely inside of America.  

 

No other Americans have been systematically forced to immigrate from one part of America to another by the American government.

However, the Great Removal was unique among these unjust removals of Native Americans.  

 

Part of what made it unique was how the Five Civilized Tribes adapted to living in Indian Territory.  They chose to continue to live as civilized people despite the uncivilized way that they had been treated.  

 

The Five Civilized Tribes were determine to create something better in their new land than what they had left behind in their old land.  They created new schools and institutions of higher learning that often surpassed those of European Americans in nearby states and territories.  They refused to let past injustices shackle their future.

The Five Civilized Tribes were the first Native Americans to be forced to move to Indian Territory.  They set a model, which other tribes that were later forced to move there could follow.  They often helped other Native Americans adjust to living in Indian Territory.  They helped them learn how to live as Americans without losing their tribal identity.

 

When European Americans were allowed into Indian Territory, they treated them with the civility that their ancestors should have been treated with by European Americans.  They proved George Washington right in calling them the Five Civilized Tribes.

The Choctaw, Creek (Muskogee), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Cherokee tribes all adopted to the new land that they were removed to, but they did not forget the land they came from.

 

They named many of their towns in Indian Territory after the towns that they had left behind in their old lands.  These new towns in Indian Territory were often settled by the same people who lived in the towns with the same name in their old land.  

 

Broken Arrow, the City of Champions, is one such example.  So is Coweta, the next town south east of it.

They were able to do this, because unlike European immigrants to America, their entire town had been forced to move together in the Great Removal.  This made their immigration unique in American History.

Since then they have proven to be great Americans, but they still have a longing for complete autonomy.

 

There is reason to not let go of this hope.  It starts with looking at another more ancient Great Removal.

What was this more ancient Great Removal?

 

The Five Civilized Tribes are not the first set of civilized tribes living in cities to be systematically removed to another land inside of an empire by a ruling government composed of people from another ethnic group.  About 2500 years earlier, the same thing happened to the ten civilized tribes of Israel.

Like the European Americans, Asshur and his descendants the Assyrians, immigrated from a land far away from the land of tribes of Israel to a land near their land to build a new country with new cities (Genesis 10:9-12).

 

After many years, a ruler of the Assyrians came against the land of the ten civilized tribes of Israel and forced them to make an impoverishing treaty to be able to remain on their tribal land (2 Kings 15:19-20). 

Then the next ruler of the Assyrians claimed the land of some of the ten civilized tribes of Israel, took them from their cities, and began this ancient Great Removal by having the Assyrian army force their immigration under guard to another part of the Assyrian empire far from their tribal land (2 Kings 15:29).  He even did this to the civilized tribe of Israel that bordered the land of his own country (1 Chronicles 5:6-9).

So, these two rulers of the Assyrians impoverished and then removed half of the ten civilized tribes of Israel to another land far from their tribal lands in the first phase of this ancient Great Removal (1 Chronicles 5:26).

 

Then the chief ruler of the other tribes related to the ten civilized tribes of Israel made an impoverishing treaty with this second ruler of the Assyrians to help his tribes in a war against the ten civilized tribes of Israel and their ally (2 Kings 16:5-10).  Later, when the chief ruler of these other tribes sought more help from this second ruler of the Assyrians, he was forced to give even more to the ruler of the Assyrians, but still did not receive any help (2 Chronicles 28:16-21).

Then another ruler of the Assyrians came against the land of the remainder of the ten civilized tribes of Israel and forced their chief ruler to make an impoverishing treaty for their tribes to be able to remain on their tribal land (2 Kings 17:3).  When the chief ruler of the remaining civilized tribes of Israel broke the treaty and sought help to expel the ruler of the Assyrians, he was taken prisoner and the Assyrians waged war against the remaining civilized tribes of Israel (2 Kings 17:4-5).  

 

After winning the war, the ruler of the Assyrians had the remaining civilized tribes of Israel removed to another land far from their tribal lands and to live as minorities in the cities dominated by another ethnic group in the second phase of this ancient Great Removal (2 Kings 17:6).  Then the ruler of the Assyrians had other people immigrate into the land of ten civilized tribes of Israel (2 Kings 17:24).

 

However, just like the Five Civilized Tribes, some members of the ten civilized tribes of Israel escaped  removal and remained in their tribal lands as a minority among the other immigrants (2 Chronicles 30:6-11).

However, this ruler of the Assyrians was not able to remove the other tribes related to the ten civilized tribes of Israel to another land at this time (2 Kings 18:7-11).  

 

Later, the next ruler of the Assyrians came against these other tribes related to the ten civilized tribes of Israel to force them into an impoverishing treaty to remain on their tribal land (2 Kings 18:13-16).

 

However, even when the next chief ruler of these other tribes abided by the terms of the treaty, this Assyrian ruler told them that they could only remain on their tribal land until he was ready to have them removed far away (2 Kings 18:31-32).  His new treaty would let them be removed to another land like their own (Isaiah 36:16-17).

So, in many ways the events of this ancient Great Removal are not that different than the events of the Great Removal.  It is not hard to see the same narrative played out by American presidents, the Five Civilized Tribes, and the other related Native Americans.  

After 200 years for the Five Civilized Tribes, and 2,700 years for the ten civilized tribes of Israel, there still remains one question:

 

Will the Great Removal ever be reversed?

 

The relationship with the Assyrians and the other tribes related to the ten civilized tribes of Israel eventually began to change for the better.

 

The next chief ruler of these other tribes was taken captive to a land thousands of miles from his tribal lands by the officers of a later ruler of the Assyrians (2 Chronicles 33:11).  However, when he was in the land of his captivity, he humbled himself greatly before the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD), who then caused him to be returned to his tribal lands (2 Chronicles 33:12-13).  He then made the cities of his tribal lands stronger than before and led his people back to walking in the ways of their ancestors (2 Chronicles 33:14-17).

Many years later, the rulers of the Assyrians sent aid to the help these other tribes, plus the members of the ten civilized tribes of Israel that lived among them, in rebuilding what had been destroyed, after they had returned to their tribal lands from the lands when they had been removed to  (Ezra 6:21-22).  

 

This change in their relationship with the Assyrians only came after they admitted that they had brought this trouble upon themselves by not walking in the ways of the Father of Truth, and that the Assyrians had only been His means to punish them for their wicked ways (Nehemiah 9:30-33).  Yet even though they were back in their tribal lands, they were still under the rule of another government (Nehemiah 9:36-37).

It has only been recently that some members of these related tribes, plus some members of the ten civilized tribes of Israel that have lived among them, have returned to live in part of their ancient tribal lands with complete autonomy.

The Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) have been used by the Father of Truth to turn the impossible dream of the impossible people returning to the impossible land to be ruled by the impossible government and speaking the impossible language into a reality.  As a result, some members of these related tribes, plus some members of the ten civilized tribes of Israel, live in the impossible country called Israel today, which sits on part of their ancient tribal lands and has complete autonomy.

So, this ancient Great Removal has been being reversed since 1870 AD.  In the near future, this ancient Great Removal will finish being reversed by the Greater Exodus.

 

The Father of Truth will bring all the descendants of those who were removed in this ancient Great Removal back to their tribal lands (Isaiah 11:11-12).  The Assyrians will build a massive highway to help them in their return (Isaiah 11:16).  That highway will later be extended through their tribal lands and into the land of their southern neighbor, when all three ethnic groups will live in their own lands and in harmony with each other under the blessing of the Father of Truth (Isaiah 19:23-25).

 

The Father of Truth will be finished with removing the ten civilized tribes of Israel and the tribes related to them to the ends of the Earth and back again.

In like manner, the Great Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes will be reversed under the reign of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ).

 

The Father of Truth owns the entire Earth and every person who lives in it (Psalm 24:1).  So, He has set the boundaries of the land of each ethnic group, including the Five Civilized Tribes, to live on (Acts 17:24-26). 

 

The Earth was originally divided among the nations that came from Noah (Noach) (Genesis 10:32).  

 

The Man of Truth will place every ethnic group back on its own land.

 

The Man of Truth has inherited the Gentiles as well as the descendants of Israel and the entire Earth (Psalm 2:6-8).  Since this is the case, the Father of Truth gave the Man of Truth to be both a covenant to the descendants of Israel and a light to all other ethnic groups (Isaiah 42:5-6).  

 

The suffering of the Man of Truth on the cross was too great to just be a covenant of salvation for Israel, so he was made a light to all other ethnic groups as well to bring salvation to the ends of the Earth and to rule over all people (Isaiah 49:5-8).  For this reason, these other ethnic groups and their rulers will seek him out (Isaiah 60:1-4).

So, the Man of Truth will be able to do reverse the Great Removal, because he will be absolute ruler over the whole earth and will break large countries into smaller nations (Psalm 2:9-12).  People of every ethnic group and language will serve him in a kingdom that will never be overthrown (Daniel 7:13-14).  Every nation will have to obey his decrees (Revelation 12:5).

When the Man of Truth is ruling over all the Earth he will treat both the descendants of Israel and the Gentiles justly to restore their health (Psalm 67).  He will settle disputes between nations in accordance with the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law), instead of them going to war with each other (Isaiah 2:1-4).  Strong nations will not be able force their will onto other nations and every nation will enjoy the fruits of their own labor (Micah 4:1-4).

 

The Man of Truth will cause all ethnic groups, including the Five Civilized Tribes, to be treated justly after this ancient Great Removal is finished being reversed by the Greater Exodus (Jeremiah 23:3-8).  When this ancient Great Removal is finished being reversed, it will bring about the correction of every injustice that has brought trouble to all ethnic groups, including the Great Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes (Romans 11:11-15). 

 

When this is done, the Great Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes, as well as that of everything ethnic group, including all Native Americans, will be reversed.

So, the First Nations will not just have their land restored, but their autonomy as well.  The Man of Truth is the hope of the Almodadi. 

However, there is another Great Removal that all people need reversed.

The first man and woman originally lived in a wonderful world where they were in fellowship with the Father of Truth (Genesis 3:8-9).  Then they were removed from that wonderful world to world of trouble and hard labor (Genesis 3:16-24).  Their sins against Him brought about the original Great Removal (Isaiah 59:2).  All their descendants have continued to suffer from the results of the original Great Removal (Romans 5:12-14).

Since the Father of Truth loved the human race, he sent His only begotten Son to make a way for them to return to Him (John 3:16).  He sent His Son to die on their behalf, so they could be restored to Him (Romans 5:8-11).  So, the Man of Truth died on a cross to reverse the original Great Removal (Colossians 1:19-22).

 

The Father of Truth then raised the Man of Truth to justify those who put their trust in His Son (Romans 4:22-25).

When the original Great Removal is finished being reversed, the human race will once again live in a wonderful world where they will be in fellowship with the Father of Truth (Revelation 21:1-4).

 

All who come into the House of Truth will have be part of this reversal of the original Great Removal.

 

You can have begin to experience the reversal of the original Great Removal in your own life by coming into the House of Truth. 

You can make the Man of Truth your king because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).  All things will become new to you and you will be restored back into fellowship with the Father of Truth (2 Corinthians 5:17-21).  You will start to regain those things that were lost in the original Great Removal (2 Peter 1:2-4).

Come into the House of Truth!