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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 [151] Johnny Cash played in the 1970 NET Playhouse dramatization of The Trail of Tears. [152] He also recorded the reminiscences of a participant in the removal of the Cherokee. [153]
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.
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.
CHEROKEE, N.C. – Bottled water. ... With thousands of members of the broader Cherokee Nation forced off their land onto the Trail of Tears and abused if not killed in federal boarding schools ...
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 ...
Most of the Cherokee later blamed the faction and the treaty for the tribe's forced relocation in 1838. [72] An estimated 4,000 Cherokee died in the march, which is known as the Trail of Tears. [73] Missionary organizer Jeremiah Evarts urged the Cherokee Nation to take its case to the US Supreme Court. [74]
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.
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.