In the early 1800s, most Euro-Americans did not live beyond the Mississippi River. Removing Native Americans to lands in present-day Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa was believed by many non-Indians to be beneficial to both Euro-American society and tribes.
![Lands Assigned to Emigrant Indians](/assets/record/000/000/201/201_detail.jpg)
Lands Assigned to Emigrant Indians 1830
National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs