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Native American History
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Trail of Tears
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1567.htmlIn 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. -
Trail of Death
http://www.potawatomi-tda.org/ptodhist.htmThe Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced removal by United States forces of 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from Twin Lakes near Plymouth, Indiana, to the location of present-day Osawatomie, Kansas, a distance of 660 miles. Typhoid fever and the stress of the forced march led to the death of over 40 individuals, mostly children.
