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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 [152] Johnny Cash played in the 1970 NET Playhouse dramatization of The Trail of Tears. [153] He also recorded the reminiscences of a participant in the removal of the Cherokee. [154]
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Navajo Stories of the Long Walk Period. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press. ISBN 978-0-912586-16-8. Iverson, Peter (2002). Diné: A History of the Navajos. Albuquerque: Univ. New Mexico Press. Cheek, Lawrence W. (2004). The Navajo Long Walk. Tucson: Rio Nuevo Pub. The Diné of the Eastern Region of the Navajo Reservation (1990).
Let's consider how the White House that was built on these tribal lands became central to the history that followed.
The complete Choctaw Nation shaded in blue in relation to the U.S. state of Mississippi. 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 ...
The Concow Trail of Tears was not an isolated event. Tension between white settlers and Native American communities had been growing for years. The Gold Rush of 1849 brought hundreds of thousands to California, most of them young men who cared very little for the indigenous population and its way of life, or their claims to traditional lands.
A Trail of Death marker is in Warren County, Indiana.. On August 30, 1838, General Tipton and his volunteer militia surprised the Potawatomi village at Twin Lakes. When Makkahtahmoway, Chief Black Wolf's elderly mother, heard the soldiers firing their rifles she was so badly frightened that she hid in the nearby woods for six days.
The 3-mile walk celebrated 100 years of Native American citizenship in the U.S. and honored the Navajo Long Walk, when the tribe was forcibly removed from its homelands in the 1860s.