Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes ... a Cherokee Indian who walked the Trail of Tears in 1838.
The ride honors the thousands of people who died during the Trail of Tears ethnic cleansing and forced displacement. Beginning in the 1830s, and for decades after, the U.S. government “death ...
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 ...
Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears is the 1991 book by Jerry Ellis telling the story of his 900-mile walk along the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the same walk his ancestors were forced to take in 1838.
Sep. 18—The 30th Annual Trail of Tears Commemorative Motorcycle Ride made its way through Athens and Limestone County Saturday, Sept. 16. More than 500 motorcyclists from across the southeast ...
English: The Trail of Tears map shows one of the most shameful episodes of American history, today preserved as the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. Date 30 April 2017
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.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 began the process that culminated in the Trail of Tears eight to nine years later. In preparation for the removal of the Cherokee, Company F of the 4th U.S. Infantry arrived at the Cherokee Agency on September 1, 1834, and established Camp Cass.