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In addition to a physical relocation, American Indian removal and the Trail of Tears had social and cultural effects as American Indians were forced "to contemplate abandonment of their native land. To the Cherokees life was a part of the land. Every rock, every tree, every place had a spirit. And the spirit was central to the tribal lifeway.
The Removal Act paved the way for the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of American Indians from their land into the West in an event widely known as the "Trail of Tears," a forced resettlement of the Indian population. [38] [39] [40] This forced resettlement has been characterized as a genocide. [41]
Farney was a young girl when the Trail of Tears impacted her family and the Muscogee people in the period of 1834–1837. [8] Farney passed down her recollections during the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation of Native American tribes from Alabama to the American West, a period which she described as one of "heartaches and sorrow."
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 began the process that culminated in the Trail of Tears eight to nine years later. In preparation for the removal of the Cherokee, Company F of the 4th U.S. Infantry arrived at the Cherokee Agency on September 1, 1834, and established Camp Cass.
Guitarist Eric Johnson released a song entitled "Trail of Tears" on his 1986 album Tones. A Parchment of Leaves, a novel by Silas House, uses the Cherokee removal as a major plot-point. The novel Through the Trail of Tears by Gloria V. Casañas has these events as a major theme in the story, told through excerpts of a fictional diary.
The Trail of Tears: The Story of the American Indian Removals 1813–1855. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 0-03-014871-5. Young, Maryland E. (1958). "Indian Removal and Land Allotment: The Civilized Tribes and Jacksonian Justice". American Historical Review. 64 (1): 31– 45. doi:10.2307/1844855. JSTOR 1844855.
Fort Butler Memorial Park marks the site of the fort today. Fort Butler was an important site during the Cherokee removal known as the Trail of Tears.Located on a hill overlooking present-day Murphy, North Carolina on the Hiwassee River, Fort Butler was the headquarters of the Eastern Division of the U.S. Army overseeing the Cherokee Nation.
The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of Native American tribes in the 1830s from Eastern Woodlands to the west of the Mississippi River. [96] This relocation ordered by the government primarily targeted “the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole” nations [ 96 ] Approximately 100,000 native Americans were removed from ...