Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

This guide to the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail helps tell an important story and honor the lives lost and the proud Native nation that has survived despite the wrongs done to them. In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which forced the many Native nations in the Southeast to give up their lands in exchange for federal territory which was located west of the Mississippi River. Despite strong resistance, the nations, which included the Choctaw, the Muscogee Creeks, the Chickasaw, the Seminole, and the Cherokee, were forced out of their homelands to territory in Oklahoma. In 1938, after years of negotiations and false promises from the United States government, the Cherokee removal process began. US Army troops, along with various state militia, moved into Cherokee homelands and forcibly evicted more than 16,000 people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia. The impacts of what came to be known as the Trail of Tears were devastating.

• ISBN: 9781877856969
• Genre: History
• Format: Paperback (saddle-stitched)
• Trim size: 9" x 9"
• Page count: 16 pages
• Published by Western National Parks Association in 2000
• Written by Elliot West
• Audience: General, Adult