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My mother didn’t learn about the Trail of Tears until she was in college, because it was left out of her Midwestern history textbooks in the 1960s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Was the Trail of Tears?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1828, someone discovered gold in Cherokee territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed The Indian Removal Act. This act basically informed Native Americans that the United States purchased the land east of the Mississippi River and the Native Americans were \u201cfree to move\u201d to somewhere across the river. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Some tribes followed government orders, some did not. For the tribes that refused to give up their land and relocate their entire culture, the United States government stepped in to force compliance. One of those tribes was the Cherokee tribe, spanning the area around east Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. They were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma, and an estimated 4,000 Cherokee people died on the journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cherokee called this journey the Trail of Tears, and they were not the only tribe to be forcibly removed from their homes and land. The Choctaw were also moved, and they lost an estimated 2,000 people along the brutal journey through floods, harsh winter, and diseases. The Muscogee Creeks, Seminoles, and Chickasaws were also forcibly removed and lost thousands of their people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trail of Tears is now a National Historic Trail<\/a>, spanning 5,043\u00a0miles through nine states.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story by Andrea L Rogers<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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Touch My Tears: Tales from the Trail of Tears by Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Trail of Tears: The Forced Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes by Charles River<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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My mother didn’t learn about the Trail of Tears until she was in college, because it was left out of her Midwestern history textbooks in the 1960s. What Was the Trail of Tears? In 1828, someone discovered gold in Cherokee territory.  On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed The Indian Removal Act. This act basically…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"\n

My mother didn't learn about the Trail of Tears until she was in college, because it was left out of her Midwestern history textbooks in the 1960s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Was the Trail of Tears?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1828, someone discovered gold in Cherokee territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed The Indian\u00a0Removal Act. This act basically informed Native Americans that\u00a0the United States purchased the land east of the Mississippi\u00a0River and the Native Americans were \u201cfree to move\u201d to\u00a0somewhere across the river.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some tribes followed government orders, some did not. For the\u00a0tribes that refused to give up their land and relocate their entire\u00a0culture, the United States government stepped in to force\u00a0compliance. One of those tribes was the Cherokee tribe,\u00a0spanning the area around east Tennessee, North and South\u00a0Carolina, and Georgia. They were forcibly relocated to\u00a0Oklahoma, and an estimated 4,000 Cherokee people died on the\u00a0journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cherokee called this journey the Trail of Tears, and they\u00a0were not the only tribe to be forcibly removed from their homes\u00a0and land. The Choctaw were also moved, and they lost an\u00a0estimated 2,000 people along the brutal journey through floods,\u00a0harsh winter, and diseases. The Muscogee Creeks, Seminoles,\u00a0and Chickasaws were also forcibly removed and lost thousands\u00a0of their people.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trail of Tears is now a National Historic Trail, spanning 5,043\u00a0miles through nine states.\u00a0<\/p>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-about-native-americans","category-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theradicalagenda.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}