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A Trail of Tears map of Southern Illinois from the USDA – U.S. Forest Service. It eventually took almost three months to cross the 60 miles (97 kilometres) on land between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. [102] The trek through southern Illinois is where the Cherokee suffered most of their deaths.
Short title: TRTEmap1.pdf; Image title: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail; Author: National Park Service: Keywords: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
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 ...
Walkway map at Cherokee Removal Memorial Park depicting the route of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears, June 2020. The park is a partnership between the government of Meigs County, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA), National Park Service (NPS), and Friends of the Cherokee.
Part of the third episode of the PBS American Experience documentary series We Shall Remain, titled "Trail of Tears", was filmed in the park in 2008. [33] [34] A sign designating the park as part of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail was unveiled on February 7, 2018. [35] A project to update the museum was completed on November 4, 2021 ...
They were the last of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast to make the journey that became known as the "Trail of Tears", during which nearly 4,000 Cherokee died. [ a ] Accompanied by his wife, daughter, and one of son John's children, Major Ridge traveled by flatboat and steamer to a place in Indian Territory called Honey Creek, near the ...
Guitarist Eric Johnson released a song entitled "Trail of Tears" on his 1986 album Tones. A Parchment of Leaves, a novel by Silas House, uses the Cherokee removal as a major plot-point. The novel Through the Trail of Tears by Gloria V. Casañas has these events as a major theme in the story, told through excerpts of a fictional diary.
Ross's Landing in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the last site of the Cherokee's 61-year occupation of Chattanooga and is considered to be the embarkation point of the Cherokee removal on the Trail of Tears. Ross's Landing Riverfront Park memorializes the location, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.