Trail of Tears

The Trail of Tears refers to the forced removal of the Cherokee American Indian tribe by the U.S. federal government, which resulted in the deaths of about 4,000 Cherokee Indians. In the Cherokee language, the event is called Nunna daul Tsuny—"the trail where they cried."

External links

Documents:

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• ?Removal of the Indians? by Lewis Cass, January 1830
• Cherokee Indian Removal Debate U.S. Senate, April 15-17, 1830
• Elias Boudinot?s editorials in The Cherokee Phoenix, 1829-31
• Text of the Treaty of New Echota, 1835
• Winfield Scott's Address to the Cherokee Nation, May 10, 1838
• Winfield Scott's Order to U.S. Troops assigned to the Cherokee Removal, May 17, 1838
• Various documents from cherokee.org
• A firsthand account by Pvt. John G. Burnett, written in 1890

Articles:

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• "Andrew Jackson v. the Cherokee Nation" (excerpt from Andrew Jackson and his Indian Wars) by Robert Remini at historynet.com
• "Cherokee Removal" from The New Georgia Encyclopedia
• "Gold Rush in North Georgia" from The New Georgia Encyclopedia

Places and events:

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• Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
• New Echota Historic Site
• Trail of Tears Commemorative Park, Hopkinsville KY
• Trail of Tears State Park, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
• Trail of Tears Commemorative Motorcycle Ride (yearly event)
• See The Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation for a lesson about the Trail of Tears from the National Park Service's Teaching with Historic Places.