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60,000 Indigenous Americans forcibly relocated to Indian Territory. The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.
From 1969 to 2005 an outdoor play commissioned by the Cherokee Nation, the Trail of Tears, was performed at a large outdoor amphitheater specially constructed for the production. A sequel to Unto These Hills, the play told the story of the forced removal and subsequent life in Oklahoma. The theater, which occasionally hosted other performers ...
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.
The play recounts the history of the Cherokee of the Eastern region up to their removal by United States forces in 1838 via the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. The drama includes notable Cherokee historic figures, including Sequoyah , Junaluska , Chief Yonaguska a.k.a. Drowning Bear, and William Holland Thomas .
The Cherokee Nation ( Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, pronounced Tsalagihi Ayeli [1]) was a legal, autonomous, tribal government in North America recognized from 1794 to 1907. It was often referred to simply as " The Nation " by its inhabitants. The government was effectively disbanded in 1907, after its land rights had been extinguished ...
Country-rock super-group Southern Pacific recorded a song titled "Trail of Tears" on their 1988 Zuma album. In 1974 John and Terry Talbot Mason Proffit wrote and recorded their song "Trail of Tears" on the album The Talbot Brothers. Swedish rock band Europe refers to the Trail of Tears in their song "Cherokee" on their album The Final Countdown.
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 ...
The Eufaula people were a tribe of Native Americans in the United States, located in the Southeast. A Muskogean -speaking people, they possibly broke off from the Kealedji or Hilibi tribe. [1] They were part of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy . Some Eufaula lived along the Chattahoochee River in what became the state of Georgia.