Trai Of Tear 1828-1838
The Deadly Journey Of 125.000 Native American
"Never, ever going to forget': 180 years since the end of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
🔥 By 1838, only about 2,000 Cherokees had left their Georgia homeland for Indian Territory. Cherokee into stockades at bayonet point while whites looted their homes and belongings. Then, they marched the Indians more than 1,200 miles to Indian Territory. Whooping cough, typhus, dysentery, cholera and starvation were epidemic along the way, and historians estimate that more than 5,000 Cherokee died as a result of the journey.
💥 By 1840, tens of thousands of Native Americans had been driven off of their land in the southeastern states and forced to move across the Mississippi to Indian Territory. The federal government promised that their new land would remain unmolested forever, but as the line of white settlement pushed westward, “Indian Country” shrank and shrank. In 1907, Oklahoma became a state and Indian Territory was gone for good.
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