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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]
The Cherokee Nation–East adopted a written constitution in 1827, creating a government with three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. The Principal Chief was elected by the National Council, which was the legislature of the Nation. The Cherokee Nation–West adopted a similar constitution in 1833.
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 Remember the Removal Ride retraces the Trail of Tears route and is helping young people from the Cherokee Nation reclaim their history. Remember the Removal: Indigenous Cyclists Take On 950 ...
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.
Chief Dale Cook tells the story of the formation of the Trail of Tears Motorcycle Ride, honoring the memory of Native Americans who suffered so greatly.
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation. New York: Doubleday, 1988. ISBN 0-385-23953-X. Hicks, Brian. "Toward the Setting Sun": John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8021-1963-6; Langguth, A. J. Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War ...
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. It was established in 2005, and has since expanded.