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G_j

(40,366 posts)
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 12:58 PM Apr 2013

175th anniversary of the Trail of Tears

http://www.nooga.com/160890/175th-anniversary-of-the-trail-of-tears-marked-with-area-events/

175th anniversary of the Trail of Tears marked with area events

By Jenni Frankenberg Veal
Published Sunday, April 7th 2013


This year marks the 175th anniversary of the Trail of the Tears, the forced removal of the Cherokee people and other tribes from their homelands in the Southeast to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, which later became part of Oklahoma.

Out of the 15,000 Cherokee who endured the forced migration west after the Treaty of 1835, it is estimated that several thousand died along the way or in internment camps. The Cherokees call the removal "Nunna-da-ul-tsun-yi," which means “the place where they cried.” Today, it is known as the Trail of Tears.

President Andrew Jackson’s biographer, Robert Remini, wrote this of the experience for the Cherokee people:
“Men were seized in the fields; women were taken from their wheels and children from their play. As they turned for one last glimpse of their homes they frequently saw them in flames, set ablaze by the lawless rabble that followed the soldiers, scavenging what they could. These outlaws stole the cattle and other livestock and even desecrated graves in their search for silver pendants and other valuables.”

This tragic event will be remembered with special events and exhibits throughout East Tennessee during 2013.

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175th anniversary of the Trail of Tears (Original Post) G_j Apr 2013 OP
The massive degradation of the Americas began shortly after Columbus landed in 1492. ladjf Apr 2013 #1
Genocide - American shame cilla4progress Apr 2013 #2
... Mnemosyne Apr 2013 #3
I was told a g...uncle, McEntire folowed his wife's family on the Trail of Tears kickysnana Apr 2013 #4

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
1. The massive degradation of the Americas began shortly after Columbus landed in 1492.
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 01:12 PM
Apr 2013

It has continued unabated.

cilla4progress

(24,587 posts)
2. Genocide - American shame
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 01:26 PM
Apr 2013

Will we ever account for this. I think not. It is a stain on our history and our collective American conscience.

kickysnana

(3,908 posts)
4. I was told a g...uncle, McEntire folowed his wife's family on the Trail of Tears
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 03:53 PM
Apr 2013

This family were stone masons. Genealogy takes you many places in history.

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