The Trail Of Tears
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, was it unjust and inhumane? What happened to the Cherokee during that
long and treacherous journey? They were brave and listened to the government, but they recieved
unproductive land and lost their tribal land.
The white settlers were already emigrating to the Union, or America. The East coast ....
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.... accepted the responsibility for the
removal of one of the largest tribes in the Southeast that were the earliest to adapt to European ways.
There was a war involving the Cherokee and the Chickasaw before the Indian Removal Policy
was passed. The Cherokee were defeated by them which caused Chief Dragging Canoe to sign a treaty in
1777 to split up their tribe and have the portion of the tribe in Chattanooga, Tennessee called the
Chickamauga.
Chief Doublehead of the Chickamauga, a branch ....
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