We Shall Remain, Episode 3 Trail of Tears Part 1

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The Cherokee would call it Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu, "The Trail Where They Cried." On May 26, 1838, federal troops forced thousands of Cherokee from their homes in the Southeastern United States, driving them toward Indian Territory in Eastern Oklahoma. More than 4,000 died of disease and starvation along the way.
For years the Cherokee had resisted removal from their land in every way they knew. Convinced that white America rejected Native Americans because they were "savages," Cherokee leaders established a republic with a European-style legislature and legal system. Many Cherokee became Christian and adopted westernized education for their children. Their visionary principal chief, John Ross, would even take the Cherokee case to the Supreme Court, where he won a crucial recognition of tribal sovereignty that still resonates.
Though in the end the Cherokee embrace of "civilization" and their landmark legal victory proved no match for white land hunger and military power, the Cherokee people were able, with characteristic ingenuity, to build a new life in Oklahoma, far from the land that had sustained them for generations.

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Education

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• trail of tears
• cherokee
• oklahoma
• suffering
• Major Ridge
• John Ross
• Native Americans
• Georgia
• Disease
• Starvation

[Metaldude1945]

Who is that actor on 0:21? He always plays Native American roles.

[jbags84]

@Metaldude1945 That is Wes Studi, he is Cherokee

[Metaldude1945]

@jbags84 Thanks! Is he a full blooded cherokee?

[jbags84]

@Metaldude1945 I'm not sure

[bubridge]

@wontonga why dont we all just go pick a forest and build shelter and live there peacefully? that is a great idea but I am concerned you have not thought it through very much. I am a Cherokee and I suggest you go check those woods out for me and let me know if my wife and kids and I can just move in with no problems and if that works out I'll call the rest of the tribe.

[RATHAHONNI]

Greed ,Military power and land hunger will trump common sense and the Supreme Court EVERYTIME! sad but true.

[bigbear197708]

@bubridge cool

[Lovetogolf2005]

Benjamin Downing is my great great great grandfather, a petioner for the removal of certain Cherokee Chiefs. He arrives in Oklahoma in 1832. He is a sheriff. He marries Margarett Rattinggoud.. She is the the granddaughter of Hamilton Conrad and Onai, of the Bird clan.... her uncles Quatie, Hair, Terrapinhead, daughter of Rattinggourd Conrad

[wontonga]

This is an actual movie, not taken a hundred years ago but rather within months ago. Why don't the first nation living there, the Cherokee, move back into this forest today?