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  2. Trail of Tears - Wikipedia

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    The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of ... During the so-called "Creek War of 1836" Secretary of War ... lived on land in the Great Smoky Mountains ...

  3. Cherokee removal - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Cherokee Removal Memorial Park - Wikipedia

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    Entrance sign at Blythe Ferry Cherokee Removal Park. Cherokee Removal Memorial Park is a public park in Meigs County, Tennessee that is dedicated in memory of the Cherokee who were forced to emigrate from their ancestral lands during the Cherokee removal, in an event that came to be known as the Trail of Tears.

  5. Explore the history of the Underground Railroad and Trail of ...

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    As you sit with The post Explore the history of the Underground Railroad and Trail of Tears this holiday season appeared first on TheGrio. It’s the holiday season; a time to hopefully connect ...

  6. Fort Butler (Murphy, North Carolina) - Wikipedia

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    Fort Butler Memorial Park marks the site of the fort today. Fort Butler was an important site during the Cherokee removal known as the Trail of Tears.Located on a hill overlooking present-day Murphy, North Carolina on the Hiwassee River, Fort Butler was the headquarters of the Eastern Division of the U.S. Army overseeing the Cherokee Nation.

  7. The tradition continues: thousands prepare to commemorate ...

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    Sep. 14—During the Cherokee removal in the summer of 1838 — the last tribe to be forcibly removed from east of the Mississippi River under the Indian Removal Act — thousands languished in ...

  8. Ross's Landing - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. John Ross (Cherokee chief) - Wikipedia

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    For the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War represented the extended divisions created by Removal and the Trail of Tears. Ross supporters largely served under John Drew's regiment. Treaty Party supporters largely served under Stand Watie. During the war, federal troops arrested Ross and removed him from Indian Territory.