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- The ethnic Uzbek population in Turkmenistan remains under increased observation after the 2002 failed coup attempts as the government of Uzbekistan was accused of being involved in the attack. The region is noted in the 2002 decree on forced relocation, along with the Dasoguz and Ahal provinces, which also have large ethnic Uzbek populations.In 2003 twenty-five families were forcibly resettled from the Dasoguz province, an area where ethnic Uzbeks comprise 80-90 percent of the population. In 2004 the government reportedly ordered the forced relocation of part of the ethnic Uzbek population living along the Turkmenuzbek border and their replacement with ethnic Turkmen. The forced relocation of ethnic Uzbeks living along the border with Uzbekistan may also be an attempt to curb smuggling of fuel and other things from Turkmenistan to Uzbekistan. In April 2005 forty people and their families fro Dasoguz province, most ethnic Uzbeks, were subject to “internal deportation” as a result of government allegations that they were involved in smuggling food goods to Uzbekistan.

-The kickapoo lay south of the Osage River which included what is now Greene County and the City of Springfield. South of that the Delaware reservation lay west to the Osage line, south to the Arkansas border and extended east to a line running north and south across Beaver Creek, which is halfway between Ava and Forsyth. The Shawnee reservation lays at Tecumseh on the North Fork River. Small clans from other displaced tribes drifted into the area. A few other tribes and white hunters, explorers, trappers, traders, and missionaries also lived among the Indians from time to time before they were forced out of their areas.

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