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"The Trail of Tears" by Robert Lindneux
in the Woolaroc Museum
The national government has always had a dilemma about what "to do with"
Native Americans. The three
choices they keep arriving at to this day are: 1) assimilation,
2) extermination, or 3) removal.
The Jackson Administration chose to remove the Indians then living east
of the Mississippi River to areas
west of it where there were few white settlers living then. The
U.S. Army forcibly evicted the Cherokee
tribe in 1838-1839. The journey to the newly created Indian Territory
was so traumatic for the thousands
involved that it became known as The Trail of Tears.
