The Trail of Tears as Told by Johnny Cash - pt 1

Removal of the Cherokees
Birthday Story of Private John G. Burnett, Captain Abraham McClellan's Company, 2nd

Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry, Cherokee Indian Removal, 1838-39.
Children:
This is my birthday, December 11, 1890, I am eighty years old today. I was born at Kings Iron
Works in Sulllivan County, Tennessee, December the 11th, 1810. I grew into manhood fishing
in Beaver Creek and roaming through the forest hunting the deer and the wild boar and the
timber wolf. Often spending weeks at a time in the solitary wilderness with no companions but
my rifle, hunting knife, and a small hatchet that I carried in my belt in all of my wilderness
wanderings.
On these long hunting trips I met and became acquainted with many of the Cherokee Indians,
hunting with them by day and sleeping around their camp fires by night. I learned to speak their
language, and they taught me the arts of trailing and building traps and snares. On one of my
long hunts in the fall of 1829, I found a young Cherokee who had been shot by a roving band
of hunters and who had eluded his pursuers and concealed himself under a shelving rock.
Weak from loss of blood, the poor creature was unable to walk and almost famished for water. I
carried him to a spring, bathed and bandaged the bullet wound, and built a shelter out of bark
peeled from a dead chestnut tree. I nursed and protected him feeding him on chestnuts and
toasted deer meat. When he was able to travel I accompanied him to the home of his people and
remained so long that I was given up for lost. By this time I had become an expert rifleman and
fairly good archer and a good trapper and spent most of my time in the forest in quest of game.

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[4BearWarrior]

I am a proud Cherokee and to this day I do not carry 20 dollar bills because of the idiot on it.

[richardcorsale]

American history is not as noble as Texas schools would have you believe.

[kcwacey]

@4BearWarrior ;)

[redmancheyenne]

Never heard this before. Thanks for this!!

[tammygrubert]

HE SAYS HE DANCED AND PLAYED WITH CHEROKEE

THAT HAD NECKLACES AROUND THEIR NECKS THAT

LOOKED LIKE ***GOLD***

[AdonisKingAXC]

@4BearWarrior I honor your people. those of my color used their gift of fire to confound the people of water and air and earth and make them to serve. I assure you my spirit does not seek such things because my spirit carries all four colors in my heart and the Great Mystery has asked me to honor all who carry the sacred hoop and help them realize their purpose and unity. WE ARE ALL ONE! Peace , Respect and LOVE! ~a~

[aimer714425]

Honeyandsam , who are you? John G Burnett is my great great great uncle. My grandmother actually donated his things to the Cherokee Museum! Would like to hear more from you!

[tammygrubert]

ROASTED DEER MEAT IS SO GOOD

MAKES ANY WHITE MAN RUN AWAY

TO THE INDIAN NATIONS

[wtmj100]

@wtmj100 I think I was confused...June had Native ancestry from her father's maternal side from pretty far back. If you look up "folkway alliance Carter family" I think the woman on the left at 5:33 is June's grandmother. You can still see some Native features in her face. Peace.

[Larrywg1]

@4BearWarrior The trail of tears is the saddest and crueliest part of american history. I likewise am Cherokee by 1/4 I despise Andrew Jackson for all the wrongs to my ancestors.

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[Monasukapanough]

researched the cherokee freedman...learn their story....they are the slave of the cherokee...the ones they have broken treaties with....they ones who they used to build their communities in Okalhoma...and to this day they still mistreat them :( :(