CHEROKEE HISTORY
1838 CHEROKEE REMOVAL
AKA TRAIL OF TEARS
FACTS
There were arguments in
Congress from Davy Crockett, Henry Clay, and Daniel
Webster, friends of the
Cherokee , but the Removal took place . Also known as the
Trail of Tears because
the suffering of harsh treatment by the U. S. Army soldiers.
There were reasons for the
removal, not totally recognized as fact, one, the ill feeling
s
between white men and
Indians in the areas of the reservations in Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama,
did not hold much concern, perhaps the big reason was that gold
was discovered on
reservation lands near Dohlonega, Georgia.
Many Indians hid away and
stayed by their homes and were not bothered and the
many wives, husbands and
children of white man were allow to stay. Many others returned.
The history 'Unto These
Hills' is somewhat misleading. The 4000 Cherokee buried
in unmarked graves all
the way to Oklahoma, turns out to be 400 and some of these
would have died at home
if they had stayed back.
Abstract: Carl Lambert,
Warren Moore's “Mountain Voices”. 1988
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