Editing Population transfer (section)

====Native American relocations====
{{Main|Indian removal}}
In the 19th century, the [[United States]] government removed an estimated number of 100,000<ref>{{cite web |url=https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2017/12/22/forced-population-transfers-mass-expulsions-migration-law-claw/ |title=Forced Population Transfers, Mass Expulsions, and Migration: The Law and its Claw |date=December 22, 2017 |first=Nafees |last=Ahmad |website=moderndiplomacy.eu}}</ref> [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] to federally-owned and -designated [[Indian reservation]]s. Native Americans were removed from the Eastern to the Western States. The most well-known removals were those of the 1830s from the Southeast, starting with the [[Choctaw]] people. Under the 1830 [[Indian Removal Act]], the Five Civilized Tribes were relocated from their place, east of the [[Mississippi River]], to the [[Indian Territory]] in the west. The process resulted in great social dislocation for all, numerous deaths, and the "[[Trail of Tears]]" for the [[Cherokee Nation (19th century)|Cherokee Nation]]. Resistance to Indian removal led to several violent conflicts, including the [[Second Seminole War]] in [[Florida]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}

As part of the [[California Genocide]], in August 1863, all [[Maidu|Konkow Maidu]] were to be sent to the Bidwell Ranch in Chico and then be taken to the [[Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation|Round Valley Reservation]] at Covelo in Mendocino County. Any Indians remaining in the area were to be shot. Maidu were rounded up and marched under guard west out of the Sacramento Valley and through to the Coastal Range. 461 Native Americans started the trek, 277 finished.<ref>Dizard, Jesse A. (2016). "Nome Cult Trail". ARC-GIS storymap. technical assistance from Dexter Nelson and Cathie Benjamin. Department of Anthropology, California State University, Chico – via Geography and Planning Department at CSU Chico.</ref> They reached Round Valley on 18 September 1863.

The [[Long Walk of the Navajo]] refers to the 1864 relocation of the [[Navajo]] people by the US government in a forced walk from their land in what is now [[Arizona]] to eastern [[New Mexico]]. The [[Yavapai]] people were forcibly marched from [[Yavapai-Apache Nation|Camp Verde Reservation]] to [[San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation]], Arizona, on February 27, 1875, following the [[Yavapai War]]. The federal government restricted [[Plains Indians]] to reservations following several [[Indian Wars]] in which Indians and [[European Americans]] fought over lands and resources. Indian prisoners of war were held at [[Fort Marion]] and [[Fort Pickens]] in [[Florida]].

After the [[Yavapai Wars]] 375 [[Yavapai]] perished in [[Indian Removal]] deportations out of 1,400 remaining Yavapai.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mann|first=Nicholas |title=Sedona, Sacred Earth: A Guide to the Red Rock County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZkbfroP9P8C&pg=PT20|year=2005|publisher=Light Technology Publishing|isbn=978-1-62233-652-4|page=20}}</ref>