The Trail of Tears.
trail of tears
That was the Cherokee Trail of Tears - the only one history seems to want to remember. However, there truly were many, many trails of tears for the American Indian tribes.
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief John Ross took a petition to Congress in 1838 protesting the U.S. government's planned removal of the Cherokees from their homelands in the southeast. He was accompanied by Whitepath and other officials. The petition bore the signatures of nearly 16,000 Cherokee Nation citizens, many written in the Cherokee syllabary, the Cherokee's own written language. The petition fell on deaf ears and the tribe's forcible removal began later that year.
Crocket died at the Alamo in Texas on 6 March 1836. The Trail of Tears took place in 1838 and 1839, meaning that Crocket had been dead for 2 or 3 years when it took place.
1838
It has been referred to as the Trail of Tears.
Wilson Lumpkin has written: 'The removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia, 1827-1841' -- subject(s): History, Politics and government, Cherokee Indians, Trail of Tears, 1838, Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 'The removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia' -- subject(s): History, Politics and government, Cherokee Indians, Trail of Tears, 1838, Trail of Tears, 1838-1839
Amicalola Falls used to have the Cherokee Indians living there until they were forced to move out in 1838. (Trail of Tears)
Denton R. Bedford has written: 'Tsali' -- subject(s): Cherokee Indians, Fiction, Trail of Tears, 1838, Trail of Tears, 1838-1839
in 1838.
Ada Loomis Barry has written: 'Yunini's story of the trail of tears' -- subject(s): Cherokee Indians, History, Indians of North America, Relocation, Trail of Tears, 1838
Old Fuss and Feathers, Brigadier General Winfield Scottwas appointed in 1838 by Vice President Martin Van Buren to remove the Cherokee indians.
1838
The Cherokee lived in north Georgia in a town that is now called New Echota until the Trail of Tears of 1838.
for six long, bitter months in the winter of 1838-39 the 1,200 miles know trail of tears were cold which killed many of the Cherokee Indians marching across it. Also a lot of Cherokee Indians were dead, so the Indians were walking to the destination and Whites kept the land so the Indians do not get their land back!
Cherokee were farmers, cattlemen and owners of land in northern Georgia from 1800 until 1838.
trail of tears