Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a time to remember the Trail of Tears and other atrocities performed by the USA on Native Americans.
From the article:
The Trail of Tears dates to 1830 when President Jackson submitted a plan to Congress to remove the tribes from the Southeast.
Cherokees at the time were very established and "may have lived in better houses" than white settlers, Townsend said.
"We may have been having dinner and soldiers came to our door and took us at gunpoint," Townsend said.
The National Park Service oversees the Trail of Tears. According to a park service handout, "families were separated — the elderly and ill forced out at gunpoint — people given only moments to collect cherished possessions. White looters followed, ransacking homes as Cherokees were led away."
Research was limited when Congress created the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail in 1987 in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Historians have since uncovered omissions. There were no routes recognized in North Carolina or Georgia, even though up to three-quarters of the Cherokees likely started from those states. The official trail markers also leave out two major arteries in Arkansas and water routes in eastern Tennessee.
Hard to look at a $20 bill the same way.
From the article:
The Trail of Tears dates to 1830 when President Jackson submitted a plan to Congress to remove the tribes from the Southeast.
Cherokees at the time were very established and "may have lived in better houses" than white settlers, Townsend said.
"We may have been having dinner and soldiers came to our door and took us at gunpoint," Townsend said.
The National Park Service oversees the Trail of Tears. According to a park service handout, "families were separated — the elderly and ill forced out at gunpoint — people given only moments to collect cherished possessions. White looters followed, ransacking homes as Cherokees were led away."
Research was limited when Congress created the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail in 1987 in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Historians have since uncovered omissions. There were no routes recognized in North Carolina or Georgia, even though up to three-quarters of the Cherokees likely started from those states. The official trail markers also leave out two major arteries in Arkansas and water routes in eastern Tennessee.
Hard to look at a $20 bill the same way.
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