A little background on the Andrew Jackson deportation.
Way back when there was a three way split. The northern tribes and the southern tribes had at some point had a vicious war, so great and murderous that what is now Kentucky, the N-S and E-W crossroads of the eastern US, was declared by them to be a “neutral zone”. No settlements or camping was permitted in the entire state.
The east coast was occupied by the Europeans, and they could make no inroads into either the north or the south. But because the east coast was full, when a large number of new immigrants, Scots Borderers, arrived, they were told to settle in Kentucky, and fortify the place. If they could keep it, it was theirs.
The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a brutal bloodbath to the northern tribes, followed by Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763), decimated or more the northern tribes.
The southern tribes were pretty much still whole, and by the time of Andrew Jackson, he realized that unless he intervened, the pressure of new settlement in the south would result in a bloody or genocidal war.
His alternative was the Trail of Tears. He attached the US Army for the deportation, both to insure the Indians left and to protect them from harassment by settlers. And while they complain bitterly about it, the army sent with them suffered as much from cold, disease and starvation.
But it saved most of their lives and kept their tribal unity and culture intact.
From what I understand, the Indians on that trail of tears refused to ride, but walked instead of accepting transportation from the white eyes.
The tribes forced to Oklahoma were allowed to take their black slaves with them.
In 1842, those slaves revolted. It did not go well for them. Some of the tribesmen were brutal task masters.
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SL002
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/slave-revolt-cherokee-nation-1842/
Truth really is stranger than fact.