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Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
John Ross was a prominent businessman and Cherokee ... first three detachments of Cherokee to be forced to travel the Trail ...
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The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
Led by Principal Chief John Ross, opponents submitted a petition ... Some four thousand died on what became known as the Trail of Tears. During the treaty’s unveiling at the museum, Cherokee ...
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The Trail of Tears
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 ...
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Thinking about the Indian Removal Act, at the National Archives Museum and National Museum of the American Indian
The upcoming exhibition Americans, opening in the fall, will ask us to think about what we, as a nation, have chosen to know and not know about the Trail of ... Chief John Ross (Cherokee, 1790 ...