Trail Of Tears

In 1958 Gaston Litton former archivist at the University of Oklahoma attributed it to a remark by a Choctaw Indian to a Baptist preacher about an Indian Territory road.

Trail of tears. The Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of over fifty thousand Indians. Trail of Tears in US.

The term Trail of Tears refers to the difficult journeys that the Five Tribes took during their forced removal from the southeast during the 1830s and 1840s. The nation of the Cherokees had been forced to give up their land that was east of the Mississippi river and to move to an area in todays Oklahoma. Oil on canvas 1844 - 5.

They were forced to leave their ancestral land. More than a thousand Cherokee particularly the old the young and the infirm died during their trip west hundreds more deserted from the detachments and an unknown number perhaps several thousand perished from the consequences of the forced migration. From the National Gallery of Art Washington DC.

It was part of Andrew Jacksons removal policy of the Indians Native Americans. The phrase Trail of Tears entered the story much later. Peoples from the Cherokee Muscogee Chickasaw Choctaw and Seminole tribes were marched at gunpoint across hundreds of miles to reservations.

In the 1830s almost 125 000 people of Indian descent occupied millions of acres around Georgia Tennessee Alabama North Carolina and Florida. Music video by Billy Ray Cyrus performing Trail Of Tears. History the forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Southeast region of the United States including Cherokee Creek Chickasaw Choctaw and Seminole among other nations to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

The Trail of Tears occurred between 1838 to 1839. The name came to encompass the removal of. The Trail of Tears is over 5043 miles long and covers nine states.