Last Cherokee survivor of Trail of Tears to be honored on June 8

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LOST CITY – The Oklahoma Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association will honor the last Cherokee survivor of the Trail of Tears during a ceremony beginning at 2 p.m. on June 8 in the Neugin Cemetery in the community of Lost City. This community is located in western Cherokee County near Hulbert.

In May of 1838, the family of Tickaneeski and Sallie Ketcher, including their three year old daughter Rebecca were rounded up in Georgia by soldiers and sent west by boat on June 6, 1838 in an Army detachment led by Lt. Edward Deas. They arrived in the west on June 19. Rebecca was married twice, first to John Smith and later to Bark Neugin. She lived in the Lost City community and had seven children survive to adulthood. She died at her home on July 15, 1932. Her approximate age was 97.

Singer, songwriter and playwright, Becky Hobbs, will be present to assist in the musical portion of the June 8 ceremony. The Lost City Community building will be opened prior to the ceremony for water and amenities. Mrs. Neugin will be the 157th person honored by the Oklahoma Chapter for enduring the forced removal.

Read more at: https://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/index/83147

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I have no memory of a single POTUS ever mentioning this stain on our Nation.

[jpak]

1. Trump Does - he's a Bigly Andrew Jackson fan

yup

[Cryptoad]

4. My bad choice of words,,,,

"mentioning " should have been "condemning "

[andym]

2. Here you go: Obama signs apology to Native Americans

https://nativevotewa.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/president-obama-signs-native-american-apology-resolution/

President Barack Obama signed the Native American Apology Resolution into law on Saturday, December 19, 2009. The Apology Resolution was included as Section 8113 in the 2010 Defense Appropriations Act, H.R. 3326, Public Law No. 111-118.

The Apology Resolution had originally been sponsored in the Senate by Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) as S.J. Res. 14. A companion measure, H.J. Res. 46, was also been introduced in the House by Congressman Dan Boren (D-OK) earlier this year. Senator Brownback successfully added the Apology Resolution to the Defense Appropriations Act as an amendment on the Senate floor on October 1, 2009.

But...
"The Apology Resolution does not include the lengthy Preamble that was part of S.J Res. 14 introduced earlier this year by Senator Brownback. The Preamble recites the history of U.S. – tribal relations including the assistance provided to the settlers by Native Americans, the killing of Indian women and children, the Trail of Tears, the Long Walk, the Sand Creek Massacre, and Wounded Knee, the theft of tribal lands and resources, the breaking of treaties, and the removal of Indian children to boarding schools."

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3. An apology,, but

just happens to leaves out what they are apologizing for,,,,,, Funny how that works!