Some of their descendants now live in the Qualla Reservation south of the park. Many of the Cherokee left, but some, led by renegade warrior Tsali, hid out in the area that is now the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act beginning the process that eventually resulted in the forced removal of all Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River to what is now Oklahoma. ![]() Frontiers people began settling the land in the 18th and early 19th century. What year did the park become an official national park and why? Before the arrival of European settlers, the region was part of the homeland of the Cherokee Indians. ![]() ![]() Great Smoky Mountains National Park By: Sarah Camisa
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