About 4,000 of the 16,000 Cherokees died.
The Cherokee name for their forced journey west was the Trail of Tears.
Because so many people died on the journey.
along the way the Cherokee Indians died
they because their feet hurt
1838
The long and often fatal journey of these Native American tribes is known as the Trail fo Tears. The Cherokee nation was forced to leave their land and were made to march 1200 miles. Many died from starvation, the cold, and diseases. About 4000 died on the journey
trail of tears
The Cherokee name for their forced journey west was the Trail of Tears.
The terrible journey forced upon the Cheorkee Indians is called the Trail of Tears.
It was a lot more than a hundred miles, and they died from exposure, not explosives. That means freezing to death. The Trail of Tears killed almost 1/3 of all the Cherokee people that were alive at that time.
The Bowl - Cherokee chief - died in 1813.