Removal and the Cherokee Nation -- The tourists : basking in Cherokee history in southern Appalachia -- The centennial : Chattanooga marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the Trail of Tears -- The capital : remembering Cherokee removal in civil rights-era Georgia -- The drama :…
In the 1830s, the United States forced the majority of Cherokees to leave their southeastern homeland for new territory in the West, an ordeal that caused the deaths of several thousand Cherokee people. This so-called Trail of Tears became the most famous event in the Indian his…
"In the 1830s, the United States forced the majority of Cherokees to leave their southeastern homeland for new territory in the West, an ordeal that caused the deaths of several thousand Cherokee people. This so-called Trail of Tears became the most famous event in the Indian hi…