Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of TearsAlex W. Bealer
The Cherokee tribe was the first to inhabit the southeastern United States before most of them were forcefully moved west along the Trail of Tears.
Trail of Tears n. The forcible removal of the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Seminole nations from their traditional homelands in the East to Indian Territory, carried out by the US government mostly between 1831 and 1839. The term originated during the initial removal of the Choctaws...
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe Cherokee[P]aNativeAmericantribefrom the US states ofNorthCarolina and Tennessee. TheCherokeehad a form of governmentsimilarto that of the US, called the CherokeeNation. Many Cherokeediedon theTrailofTears, when they wereforcedto leave theirlandsand ...
Mississippi. (Peterson). ‘The trail where they cried’ is the true translation for what is known as The Trail of Tears and it specifically relates to the violent Cherokee removal in 1838 yet the context originated from the first removal route taken by the Choctaw tribe in 1831…show more ...
Reflectively, Theda Perdue and Michael Green have summarized the complexity and cunning complicity surrounding the 1838-39 infamous Cherokee displacement known as the Trail of Tears, adding to the scholarship of Tim Garrison, Gary Moulton, Walter Conser, Mary Young, and the late William G. Mc...
Representing Native Identity: The Trail of Tears and the Cherokee Heritage Center in OklahomaClark, SharriClark, Sharri 1997 Representing Native Identity: The Trail of Tears and the Cherokee Heritage Center in Oklahoma. Cultural Survival Quarterly Spring:36-40....
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Answer and Explanation: By the time Sequoyah's Cherokee tribe was forced to walk the Trail of Tears in 1838, he had already been living in Oklahoma for several years. This... Learn more about this topic: Cherokee Trail of Tears | Timeline, Summary & History ...
Cherokees Forced Along Trail of Tears Despite legal victories by the Cherokees, the United States government began to force the tribe to move west, to present-day Oklahoma, in 1838. A considerable force of the U.S. Army—more than 7,000 men—was ordered byPresident Martin Van Buren, who...