Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
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- Опубліковано 17 кві 2013
- The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States reveals one of the darkest chapters in American history. Stories of hardship, endurance, love, and loss come alive as a grandfather experiences removal with his granddaughter.
Filmed at many locations along the trail corridor, Trail of Tears commemorates the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from their homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in 1838-1839. Over 4,000 Cherokees died as a result of the removal. The film highlights a tragic chapter in American and Cherokee history and portrays the struggle and determination of the Cherokee people to maintain their dignity and cultural identity.
This film is a collaborative effort among the National Parks Service National Trails Intermountain Region, the Cherokee Nation, and Harpers Ferry Center.
Executive Produced by Cherokee Nation, Cherokee CRC, LLC
An Aperture Films, Ltd. Production
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My great grand mother was full blooded Cherokee. I remember her like it was yesterday. She lived in east Texas, was a one room school teacher, chopped her own wood and drew her water from a well. Summers with her was one big adventure. I loved her so. I am now 66, but her memory remains strong in my heart.
IM NOW 80 N MR GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS AN INDIAN SQUAW I WAS TOLD BORN N BRED IN KY
Bruh why are everyone’s family so badass and mine is just straight boring
thats carzy how you remember that cause i dont remember asking
@@michaelmodernsonicfan5341 sicko
@@bigewoke1814 If you dive deep into your family bloodline, you’ll probably find some information things. My great great great grandparents on my moms side were Swedish immigrants, and my great great great great grandfather was murdered by the mob.
Jacksons face on the money should be replaced with that of a Cherokee!.
Agreed. He crashed the banks too
I don't think anything should be changed especially to a people who have always been our enemy. Remember 1974 Wounded Knee?
I don't agree with that idea President Andrew Jackson was a American. Put a Cherokee on your money.
Without question. As an African American, I used to favor the idea of Harriett Tubman replacing him and I still think consideration should be given her as well, but this story is compelling.
God bless my Native American brothers and sisters. Your struggle is mine!
@@leefrancis4565 What happened at Wounded Knee in 1974 is nothing compared with what happened in 1890.
I was the granddaughter in this movie! :)
littlemisscherokee thank you I know it was hard to do knowing the evil but I also know that you harbor no hate for any man Gods lost tribes I love you all
Really that's so cool amazing profoemams
littlemisscherokee my son found in his D n a research two Chiefs . Ancestors
You look so pretty in this movie! :) It must have been really hard and emotional for you to have to do this
littlemisscherokee cool saw it in class and sponges can be two genders
I never even heard of this until recently, talk about a failed school system. this has to be one of the sickest things I ever heard of
derzx 479
Failed school system.
Just because it is American History, doesn't mean that it will be strongly biased. At school, we openly talk about our past mistakes and the abuse of minorities and openly talk about politics.
Really? I was taught about this in elementary school. It’s well known American history.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath America is a shame of humanity , even before Hitler .
all you really had to do was search for yourself... why does everyone rely on a a school system..
Cheep N Nasty Guitars what state do you live in I learned about this multiple time from elementary to high school
I find it so annoying that growing up, we were only taught certain things from America's history. I attended a highly respected public school system, but, like I said, there is so much that was not taught to us. :(
Kenyan Bunnie Yes Kenyan and Grandmother was also a slave to the white people. But no body is taught that either. we were bought and sold just like you. People sweep that under the rug too.
Rose Kramer I meant my Cherokee Grandmother
Rose Kramer We weren't slaves. As far as I know, none of my family were abducted into the American slave trade. Nor British slave trade, even though Kenya was "colonized" by the British.
Kenyan Bunnie
We DO learn this in school . Our teacher openly talks about our nation's faults and depicts how certain trends develop.
You weren't in ESE aka Special Education. We were exposed to all the good, the bad and the ugly side of history, both World History and United Sates History. General/Gifted/Honor classes are shit... just wasted years and one big social club or daycare center. There is a reason why I want to be a Special Education teacher. I want to actually teach and not teach based on corporate made exams.
Very sad, the way American Indians were treated, lets learn from the past, and not let it repeat again!
battleday frances not American Indians only Indians.
+Varun Asarpota Not "Indians" Just the Natives of the American Land
+Rikudo Madara Uchiha™ They're called Indians sometimes. It's not offensive.
It depends on the tribe, Navajo don't like to be called Indian. They are Native Americans.
They doing the same thing now
cherokees: *dig gold in their own land
Georgia: *Wait that's illegal*
LOLOL
how dare those damn cherokees!
@Zavier Fox is this a joke I saw it some where
Uhh, this is so one sided...and funded by our tax dollars, for shame! As always they story just No mention that 2/3rds of the Cherokee had already intermarried and assimilated to the Western way of life, like the Gauls after Rome. No mention of the wars that were declared on Europeans and black settlers along the frontier during the Revolution, and before/after, like the Redstick rebellion which happened just a few years prior. No mention that natives were allowed to stay as long as they accepted US citizenship, no mention that today there are 10 times as many Cherokee as that were alive BEFORE the Trial of Tears...the NPS is supposed to be a force of unification, not division...so maybe tell the whole story instead of just starting with the 1820's and gold?
@@maxmccloud8566 you’re joking right?
Long live the Natives, I love you all...
Long live to Andrew Jackson.
I love you to yula
Um lots of them died
@@maztermonzter9764 Of course you an ASSHOLE for saying that !!
@@maztermonzter9764 kiss my Cherokee ass piece of shit...
I was adopted in 1953 and just recently found out who my birth mother was. And she was half Creek Native and my Great Great Grandmother was full Creek Native American and passed away while on the trail of tears.
Indeed our past is not pretty... There is so much greed in our politicians, from the beginning to now... Have we not learned from our past?
I equally condemn the traitors who thought it was in the "best interest" of their people to sign away their homeland. As in all conflicts, a primary goal of belligerents is to find high-level, sympathetic individuals in the enemy's camp to cut deals with so that can say "See! Even your own people want what we want!"
Jackson was a Democrat
Warrior Cat Fan #1 AKA DragonCat at that time, aka a conservative. everyone isn’t dumb bro
Evidently not
@@ifloridawarriorcatfan9918 Ever heard of "the southern strategy"? If not, look it up, and you'll realise that if Jackson had to pick a party today, he'd be a staunch republican. I'm not even american and i know this stuff..., i have an idea for you, next time someone tells you "america is the greatest nation on earth", tell them to fix your education system and only then may you have a chance of actualy becoming just that. Untill then you'll just stay an ignorant, self-centered, chauvinist and bellicose country.
I am a girl from the Netherlands and I got in touch with the cherokee nation through a book called house of night. I really liked the idea of what grandma redbird did and the old ceremonies that were brought back in the book. So I began to study the cherokee's. I have a deep deep respect for them.
im a person who didnt ask
I started to cry as the little girl sang the trail song. We (as a people) have endured so much, and yet we remain. Sometimes I feel so ashamed of being a mixed-blood, but then I remember this song and I know that no matter what, I am and always will be Cherokee. I am Cherokee by blood, I am Cherokee through my continuation of my culture in my family, I am Cherokee in every aspect of what it means to be of AniYunWiyah. I feel the separation from my culture and people in my heart often, but then I sing our songs in Tsalagi and I am renewed. I know my Cherokee ancestors would be proud of me.
YAH IS GODS TRUE NAME.
READ PSALMS 68 VERSE 4.
KING JAMES VERSE
grow up no one cares boo hooo that happend 200 years ago
Ignore the haters above me, and be proud that you have Cherokee blood, because even through all the hate and persecution they did not give up.
@@michaelmodernsonicfan5341 wow, so cool and edgy.
My great- great grandpa Redbird Smith was the chief of the Ketoowah tribe survived the trail of tears. I never understood why Andrew Jackson is on the $20 bill.
Sarah Grisham That’s awesome I need to research more and Andrew Jackson deserved to be impeached what he did was unconstitutional.
Because all of your living life it has always been there.
cause there were only a few presedents to put on money back then
We watched part of this in my history class today. I definitely cries tears of sorrow for the people who had to endure this.
I am proud to be just a tiny bit Cherokee.
Lols, why? The didn't even have a written language until 1828, and they learned it from watching Europeans.
@@maxmccloud8566 ... i hope you're trolling
My grandmother grew up on a rez near Hugo, OK. Her 3xgreat grandmother, called Blue Hen, walked the trail.
That’s awesome, did not know there was a reservation close to Hugo
MORAL: Don trust politicians to do the will of the people, do what's right and obey the law.
@@2ATILLTHEYBURYME how very racist of you
Yep and stick up for what is right.
The purest humans have no hate for another being.
Now they are all in a spiritual journey trail to inspire others to succeed and not fail. They are all in heaven smiling down, smile back and lose that frown.
My great great grandparents were both half Cherokee and they were survivors of the Trail Of Tears they had to walk all the way to Oklahoma. I believe God was with them and the tribes when they had to walk that horrible trail, sadly my great great grandpa died of a tooth disease because of his teeth were rotten. And my uncle visited my great great grandma when before she died in Oklahoma, he described her as being a loving and caring woman.
I'm a North Carolinian, and my heart has always hurt for the Cherokee people.
My heart hurtsthem
I am litarally crying right now that is so disrespectful
I was also crying I was so sad
karen
thank you for the story of endurance of the Native American people
I appreciate them actually using Tsalagi in a lot of the story part of the documentary! its hard to find it in media, so ᏩᏙ!
I am 1/8 Cherokee. My great grandmother was full-blooded. I am proud to have their blood coursing through my veins.
My great- great grandmother and her family walked this horrifying trail and survived Glory to the most High!
My native American ancestors survived the trail of tears,that's why I'm here.aswell as my black ancestors. Thank you God for beautiful strong minded people in my family. I fell my ancestors spirits around me giving me hope to carry no their legacy. God bless thanks for the upload
Reviewing this dark part of United States history turns my stomach and brings tears to my eyes.
I'm western Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw (Ms and Ok) and Catawba. My 4th great grandma was on the trail at 12 years old from Tennessee.
familyguygerald My Grandmother is Black and Cherokee. My mom is half Cherokee and my father's people were Creole/Chikasaw.
hey , can you contact me
I love learning about my heritage I'm part Cherokee and Im proud to have a native American grandpa!
Somewhere I heard about the trail of tears and had to look it up, as a European (Swedish) we learned nothing about this in school. But they did learn us about all of our kings from 1600's until today.... Great documentary, thank you for posting.
They don't teach much of this history in American schools either.
We didn't "Relinquish" anything, we were forced off
The Mohammed You say "We" as if you were apart of it.
Cherokee leaders signed a treaty giving up the land.
I'm not saying it was good, it was absolutely horrible. I'm just saying, technically, that Cherokee leaders did agree to give up their land and move west.
Muffin Panda
A small minority without authority to speak for all Cherokee signed. Read the history.
I know the history. Only a very small minority thought signing the treaty was a good idea, and an overwhelming majority of Cherokee did not want to give up their land. It wasn't fair. But Cherokee leaders still signed the treaty.
I when to Tennessee State Museum. Andrew Jackson is everywhere. But they never mention the Trail of Tears.
That's because this Country knows how to sugar coat or cover up their evil deeds! this Govt knew what they did to the Natives Americans was Evil and wrong but did it anyway to get their Land to sell it to the European Farmers which was done!!
Calm down Trotsky, the Natives owned slaves and took over each others land too.
@@maxmccloud8566 That's your excuse for genocide.
@@user-cw2py6wh8l lols, there are 10 times as many Cherokee living today as before the Trail or Tears, or did you never look that up...hard to call that a genocide, no?
@@user-cw2py6wh8l There are between 300-900 thousand Cherokees today (depending what genetic definition you use), at the time of the Trail of Tears there were about 30-50 thousand. I am not making excuse for genocide, because there was no genocide.
I’m proud to be NATIVE AMERICAN of the CHEROKEE INDAIN that’s my people that walked
Long live Native Americans
It is time that people understand and treat our 1st nation people with the respect they so deserve. My Family history was changed by the Trail of Tears as was so many. This country was called Turtle Island before it was named America
My Great Great Grandma was full blooded Cherokee...my maternal grandmother maiden name is True blood..she was raised in Salisbury North Carolina as a baby...along with my her siblings... she's passed June 2001...we have deep family roots in NC
DIDNT ASK
Wow, the Cherokee are an amazing people. I have no Cherokee blood at all, but I would be honored if I did
Infinite Sky I don't even know anymore whether or not I have any Cherokee or other Native American blood at all, but I still wonder if they're a part of me, even if only a little bit.
are amazing people***
Infinite Sky I am Cherokee indean and I live In Missouri where the treils of tears have Ben and this veteo made me cry and I learns so much about this it made me cry.
Ethnic and national pride is the most deadliest of all human mentalities. It's being pride over shit one did not earn or work for. It's worthless pride that causes so much misery, pain, suffering and unnecessary death. Reframe yourselves from such notions.
Juci Shockwave I agree. I have a card that says I'm 1/16th Cherokee Indian and I can get free healthcare in Oklahoma. That's great and all but..... what the hell did I do to deserve it?
Native americans I love u all💜💜💜😊
@Mari Jayne you are taking this out of context
My third great grandfather survived the trail of tears. I didn’t even know I had Cherokee ancestry until a week or so ago, and today I realized that they were part of the removal from Tennessee to Oklahoma. I don’t even know how to feel. I’m so tired of people being horrible to each other!
Man I miss my great grandmother she was full blood creek. I could barely understand what she said but she is role model
I may not be Indian, but I do feel horrible
kittie cat Don't feel Horrible just learn from what was done and Never Never let something like this happen again. Thank you for your concern.... A Cherokee member who's Great Grandmother walked the trail of tears.
i came here because i saw a meme on instagram and a lot of native americans were offended now i understand
what meme
What meme
WHAT MEME
Revisiting this history after getting an update on the natives of Lahaina, Hawaii. It's the same thing all over again; nothing has changed.
I watched this documentary very informative and it bought tears to my eyes thank you for your content.
Both of my grandmothers were Choctaw natives and lived on reservation in Mississippi..
My g g grandmother was aboard the "Thomas Yeatman" steamboat! There were 540 native americans packed on these ships like sardines! She lost a sister named "Leety" and lost her father at "Burnt Caddens, Arkansas"! There was a drought in April of 1834, so they walked the remaining 60 miles to Salisaw, Oklahoma! There they were registered and walked to Fort Gibson where at the age of (17), she met my g g grandfather, Charles Fleetwood (27), who was a soldier there! Her Christian name was Lucinda Morgan! Her mother, Awee Wolf survived the "Trail of Tears"!
Shame on Jackson!!!
Long before I knew that I have Native American blood in me my heart cried for the Cherokee people
Shameful - why couldn't our government just let them stay where they were? What right did they have making them walk all the way out West somewhere. This will haunt our country for eternity.
This was such a great video thank you for the great content! 10/10 IGN I would recommend to watch again!
my great great grandfather was left on a porch at a white family's house,in Crossville Alabama.His mother could not care for him.
That's an amazing story that I am proud of.I get saddened when I think of it,but I would no be here now if it hadn't happened
Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia were a disgrace and should never have gotten away with what they did to the Cherokee people. I love you, my native Americans! 💖💖
Uhh, this is so one sided...and funded by our tax dollars, for shame! As always they story just No mention that 2/3rds of the Cherokee had already intermarried and assimilated to the Western way of life, like the Gauls after Rome. No mention of the wars that were declared on Europeans and black settlers along the frontier during the Revolution, and before/after, like the Redstick rebellion which happened just a few years prior. No mention that natives were allowed to stay as long as they accepted US citizenship, no mention that today there are 10 times as many Cherokee as that were alive BEFORE the Trial of Tears...the NPS is supposed to be a force of unification, not division...so maybe tell the whole story instead of just starting with the 1820's and gold?
They deserved everything that came their way. Native Americans will never forgive the west for giving them forks and toilets
@@cyberspartan2370the west is stained in rotten blood. And it flows to your heart and mind, corrupting people that are week willed. I acknowledge the people of the west that don’t let greed and corruption taint their minds and hearts. Unfortunately, those in a position of power often succumb to their lowly desires. Tsk tsk.
This makes me cry!
I’m part Cherokee and Navajo and this is a very informative video on my ancestors so sad that we never learned about this in our school systems
Learning it rn lol
My Great Great - Grandmother, Polly Mary Pusk - co - Chubbe (Chubbe) and her father, Frank "Huska" Chubbe survived the Trail of Tears.
Very proud. We are not on the roll that we can find even though my ggg grandmother, Polly testified before the Choctaw Citizenship Court in Oklahoma.
We are Cherokee though. ♥️
Is your great G G from Georgia?
I live in Tennessee and I always hate when people bring up "southern hospitality" when the southern folk were the ones who benefited off of the removal of native Americans. Makes me sad to see what the natives went through because of greed. From a latina with native blood to my fellow native brothers and sisters, they tried to destroy us in all of the americas but they couldn't wipe us out completely❤ we're still here.
Jackson did not get away with anything, in time he experienced a slow agonizing death being cast aside by his party and left to die all alone, his wife Rachel being the first to go and leaving him empty and broken emotionally. the natives got a raw deal yet they are the ones who are honored and celebrated for their toughness and endurance regardless of the odds, while Jackson is basically disliked and castigated by historians.
I know this is years later. Your comments are false. He has gotten away with his blatant racism because every time anyone, yes even a Cherokee decent receives or spends money, he/she has to see his evil racist ass on the $20 dollar bill.
What a horrendous series of acts. The Indian Nations should have never been treated this way. How shameful.
It’s so sad that they had to live through this... no one should live through that-
:/
so sad,this is my family.
i was borned in murphy nc.cherokee co.my great grandmother molly jump was a mid wife in the early 1900 .and delivered most all the babies in unaka nc,all the old people there still know who she was,i only have one photp of her.
I live 20 miles north of Anna, Il, where the trail passed through. Last week I visited and photographed the Camp Church site. I'd long known the TOT passed through southern Illinois, and that stretch was probably the most difficult part of their journey, but this was the first actual site I've visited. My mother is from OK City, and it's been in the last few years we conclusively learned we have a breath of Cherokee in us. That blood was likely introduced in the 1850s in Oklahoma. This is one piece of American history I hope is never repeated...
Thank you for sharing this information. 🤝
This is my Great grandmother, my grandfather, my Dad, & my people. GOD will have his vengeance one day. We are of the eastern band in N.C. One day all the evil will be avenged. Those precious souls who knew their GOD are in a better land.
As a proud American I really wish the Natives were not treated this way. I love Native American culture and their ideals and I just don’t understand why we had to treat them so cruelly.
Andrew Jackson should not be on the 20$ bill 🙄
Uhh, this is so one sided...and funded by our tax dollars, for shame! As always they story just No mention that 2/3rds of the Cherokee had already intermarried and assimilated to the Western way of life, like the Gauls after Rome. No mention of the wars that were declared on Europeans and black settlers along the frontier during the Revolution, and before/after, like the Redstick rebellion which happened just a few years prior. No mention that natives were allowed to stay as long as they accepted US citizenship, no mention that today there are 10 times as many Cherokee as that were alive BEFORE the Trial of Tears...the NPS is supposed to be a force of unification, not division...so maybe tell the whole story instead of just starting with the 1820's and gold?
Land and resources.
We did not have too treat them badly. It was about greed and our shifty lying government and it is still the same way today.
I think this is the saddest thing in American history...
I agree with you
agree as well; this is as bad as what the germans did to the jews imo
I cried when I saw this
maybe. being shacked, dragged to a foreign land, having your mother/father and kids sold away never to be seen again, forced to work all day or beaten with whips, hung from trees, punished for reading or learning, raped, degraded, etc was kinda rough too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@safelyanonymous5717well it wasn’t as bad although they were both still immoral and wrong. Although Native Americans like Jewish people were forced to leave their homes and also died of starvation and cold and disease and exhaustion like Jewish people the Native Americans weren’t killed in gas chambers nor were they shot. However both the Trail of Tears and the Holocaust were horrible events in which countless innocent people were killed.
thank you for putting together this video. very informative.
Thank you for the video.
My great grandparents have alot of Cherokee blood and one of them are even full blood Cherokee... Glad to have it :)
Why would people dislike this video?
Varun Asarpota probably because they don’t like the truth...
I know right
Because it doesn't show both sides views. It one sided.
Completely heartbreaking. So sorry this was done to you.
@Adrian Hinojosa. Still being done today. Covid mandates
@@donmiko7439 cry about it boomer
I'm doing my history project based on this, I feel pity for those who had to go through that.
I really love this video for my social studies classes
About 47% of me is cherokee.
JustAn Enthusiast that’s cap
This is a great video-we use it at our middle school to help teach the Trail of Tears.
Me too!
I remember writing an essay on this topic back at a community college. Good times.
I'm half native and half black American , both my people come from tough backgrounds, I hardly know anything of my native side so it's time to do some research.
you are native American because black people are native American. we was here before this lighter skinned people. they came over and were welcomed. to the land and became a part of us but then the white man came and split up everyone
black american pfffft
DJ AJ I also am part Cherokee. The government gave them blankets infested with smallpox. I know all your ancestors had a horrific time, but to infested blankets will a deadly disease that makes one suffer so terribly is unbelievably cruel. This is the American holicost.
#ProudToHaveCherokee!
Remember, events like this are NOT the American way, but the human condition. Horrible things have been done throughout the history of man. The common denominator in all of these is not America(n), but human.
Lol u r funny
That was evil as hell I have Cherokee blood in me a lot and my life was not the best growing up and I'm figuring out why it is so sad God will make us pay for that evil act
When I worked for a construction company that built Interstate 40 just east of Fort Smith back in 1968 we ran across several graves that later turned out to be Indians from the trail of tears on their way to Oklahoma. It was a moving moment for many of us at that site. Today 1-40 runs right over this site!!
Thanks this really helped for my report :)
We studied this in school back in the 80's. I was surprised to see that my sons didn't or at least didn't remember much of it. I am teaching my grandchildren.
My Great-Great-Great-Great-Great grandfather survived the Trail of Tears. He lost his farm and everything. He owned about 400 acres of land.
if Georgia wanted to give back some of its land free to Cherokee nation ancient wrongs might be righted.
fuck off with that bullshit it was never their land to begin with
windstorm1000 i think a national forest from each state be given back to the indians to take care of and to live where they choose not docimented like cattle they know how to preserve the land better than we do and it still want be enough suck time in our history the gov don't want us to know about imagine that
@@vincethepince6247 shut the fuck up
Hello not for our channel but for the Trail of Tears association we are making a video (as we have made a few) to commemorate the Georgetown, TN section of the Trail. We were wondering if we could use a section of this video for educational purposes as it is hard to find stock footage of Native Americans on the trail. Thank you
I was in this film documentary about the Trail of Tears ,I'm Cherokee and Choctaw and Irish. I just wonder how they would have felt if the Indians would have went to their country and made them move
Sad to hear. The trail of tears was a depressing time🙁
I read it was many tribes that were removed, not just the Cherokee
When I was little I thought America was great but as I grow to know American and its history we get to know how bad it is.
right?
this is so sad :(
Absolutely heartbreaking that a beautiful race of ppl were almost obliterated by White American greed. I wonder if many of these illegal laws were passed by English men. The whites in power then seemed to have that pointy aristocratic air of snobbery. I have somewhat of an understanding, being an Irish Catholic and oppressed also by foreign greed from an oppressor. The American Indian music is beautiful, touching the soul. Quite different from the Irish, but I'm sure much of it tells a similar story. Thank you for sharing this. Peace.
I am 1/16th Cherokee, the Eastern Band to be specific. I am proud of my Cherokee heritage. The thing that bothers me is, why is there nothing really done for the people whom the US government has wanted to sweep away under a rug of forgetfulness? Everyone talks about every race in America, but no one talks or respects the race that was here before all of us, including the other lines of my blood.
Kristin McCartney I'm actually HALF Cherokee. I'll NEVER forgive Andrew Jackson for what he did to my ancestors.
hello , can you help me out with my research ?
Very educative and informative.
In the early 1830s a collection of 500 representatives from the 19,000 Cherokee tribe sought to renegotiate the previous treaty. This new treaty, called The Treaty of New Echota, exchanged the Cherokee land for land in Arkansas and Oklahoma valued at 140 billion dollars (2020 value). Those who accepted the relocation would have two years to make the journey. Alternatively, individuals would stay and be granted US citizenship and 650 acres of land per family. Unfortunately, the Cherokee were suffering from factional infighting and this group of 500 did not have the blessing of the other faction. By the time Winfield Scott was called to enforce the treaty, just 2,000 of the Cherokee had voluntarily relocated. This raises doubts as to just how few people the 500 representatives really represented. When those who had been forced to undergo the Trail of Tears arrived, a civil war immediately broke out between those who stayed and those who left prior to the forced relocation.
I'm trying to use this documentary in a college essay I'm writing, but I am unable to find the citing information. Proper title, director's name, any actor's names, distributor, year of release exedra. If anyone has any of this information or could direct me to where I can find it, please let me know.
I am a direct descendant of John Rolfe, and other founding members of Jamestown Colony. I also have at least two cherokee ancestors not far back. They avoided the trail of tears by blending in with the "melungeon" people of Appalachia.They saved an unknown number of natives from the march also. They didn't Identify as being cherokee on any census. because of this their descendents are not recognized by the tribes. I'm proud of what my European ancestors did in this country, aside from decimating and dehumanizing my other ancestors.
Excellent production of this shameful and tragic chapter in American history. Kids need to know about the terrible wrongs our country has done like this and slavery as well as America's triumphs. How else can we make the future better?
Would this be appropriate to show to middle school students?
Thanks Mr. Bocca..
Can he even do that? Jackson has some heavy racism going on there