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Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
The "Trail of Tears" was a forced removal of at least twenty thousand Cherokee Indians. In 1838, the US government moved them from their homelands in the mountain valleys of Appalachian Georgia and the Carolinas to western Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Cherokee call this trail Nunna-da-ul-tsun-yi, meaning "The Place Where They Cried." Traveling through bad weather and without proper clothing. Atleast 4000 died. -
Trail of Death
Trail of DeathIn 1838 Americans were moving west and wanted the fertile land of Northern Indiana.The problem: the Potawatomi Indians were in the way and owned the land by treaty. Through a series of shady deals and decisions the government initiated the “removal” of nearly a thousand Potawatomi 660 miles to Kansas. It is called "The Trail of Death” because almost daily as they crossed Indiana and Illinois children and old folk died.
