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Family Stories From the Trail of Tears is a collection edited by Lorrie Montiero and transcribed by Grant Foreman, taken from the Indian-Pioneer History Collection [149] Johnny Cash played in the 1970 NET Playhouse dramatization of The Trail of Tears. [150] He also recorded the reminiscences of a participant in the removal of the Cherokee. [151]
The Choctaw Trail of Tears was the attempted ethnic cleansing and relocation by the United States government of the Choctaw Nation from their country, referred to now as the Deep South ( Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana ), to lands west of the Mississippi River in Indian Territory in the 1830s by the United States government.
The Trail of Tears is generally considered to be an infamous episode in American history. To commemorate the event, the U.S. Congress designated the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail in 1987. It stretches across nine states for 2,200 miles (3,500 km).
An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law, as described by Congress, provided "for an exchange of lands with ...
The ride honors the thousands of people who died during the Trail of Tears ethnic cleansing and forced displacement. Beginning in the 1830s, and for decades after, the U.S. government “death ...
John Ross's life and the Trail of Tears are dramatized in Episode 3 of the Ric Burns "American Experience" documentary, We Shall Remain (2009), shown and available online on PBS. John Ross is a character in Unto These Hills , an outdoor drama that has been performed in Cherokee, NC since 1950.
This march became known as the Trail of Tears. An estimated 4,000 men, women, and children died during relocation. [9] When the Round Valley Indian Reservation was established, the Yuki people (as they came to be called) of Round Valley were forced into a difficult and unusual situation. Their traditional homeland was not completely taken over ...
Nimrod Jarret Smith (1837–1893) was 4th Principal Chief of the Eastern Band and a Confederate Army veteran of the Thomas Legion of Cherokee Indians and Highlanders. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is made up of descendants of Cherokee primarily from along the Oconaluftee River in Western North Carolina, in today's Cherokee County.