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Nice item on the "Trail of Tears"...
Nice item on the "Trail of Tears"...
Item # 708081
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June 02, 1838
NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Washington City, June 2, 1838
* Trail of Tears disaster
* Native Americans - Indians
* General Winfield Scott
Page 2 has a nice article concerning the infamous Trail of Tears headed: "Removal of The Cherokees" which is a letter signed by Winfield Scott to the Cherokee Indians.
It begins: "The president of the United States has sent me, with a powerful army to cause you, in obedience to the treaty of 1835, to join that part of your people who are already established in prosperity on the other side of the Mississippi..." with much more. A great letter.
The Trail of Tears was the relocation of Native Americans including Cherokee, Creek, Seminole & Choctaw nations from their homelands to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Estimates are that 4,000 of the 15,000 relocated Cherokees died on route.
Sixteen pages, 8 1/4 by 12 1/4 inches, very nice condition.
background: The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation in 1838, overseen by General Winfield Scott, stands as the most harrowing phase of the Trail of Tears, illustrating a profound collapse of legal protections for Native Americans. Acting under federal orders to enforce the Treaty of New Echota—a document signed by a small, unauthorized faction of the tribe—Scott arrived in the Southeast with 7,000 troops to begin the systematic round-up of over 15,000 Cherokee people. Families were abruptly forced from their homes at bayonet point into poorly prepared internment stockades, where disease and malnutrition quickly took hold. While Scott eventually granted the Cherokee leadership’s request to manage their own migration, the delay forced the majority of the groups to travel during one of the harshest winters on record. The resulting "trail" was a 1,200-mile disaster of exposure and illness that claimed the lives of approximately 4,000 individuals, effectively stripping the tribe of their ancestral lands and forcing a total reconstruction of their society in unfamiliar Western territory.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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