The 'Trail of Tears' endured by the Cherokee when they were 'removed' to the Indian Territory of Oklahoma, would be repeated by dozens of southern tribes between 1832 - 1844.
Sixteen thousand Cherokee walk
to Indian Territory in Oklahoma from their homelands in
Georgia. The journey, undertaken in winter, saw thousands
die, and will become known as the Trail of Tears. (For more,
see: 1829 - Indian Removal gathers momentum.) While the
Cherokee Trail of Tears received the most notoriety for the arduous
conditions and the numbers who perished, in fact, dozens of other
tribes would endure their own trails of tears to new homelands.
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