Cherokee Trickster

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Published Jul 30, 2020

Between 1830 and 1850, the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee people (including mixed-race and black slaves who lived among them) were forcibly removed from their lands and relocated west. State and local militias forced Native Americans who were relocated to march to their destinations. The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush. Approximately 2,000–8,000 of the 16,543 relocated Cherokee perished along the way. We visited the crossing of the Mississippi where hundreds lost their lives along the banks of the river to a massive snowstorm and iced river. Here they froze and starved to death and left behind...