Trail of Tears - - - W.A.S.P.

My personal interpretation of the song "Trail of Tears" from the album Dying For The World (2002) by W.A.S.P.

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The Legend of The Cherokee Rose

When the Trail of Tears started in 1838, the mothers of the Cherokee were grieving and crying so much, they were unable to help their children survive the journey. The Elders prayed for a sign that would lift the Mother's spirits to give them strength. The next day, a beautiful rose began to grow where each mother's tears fell. The rose is white for their tears; a gold center represents the gold taken from the Cherokee lands, and seven leaves on each stem for the seven Cherokee clans. The wild Cherokee Rose grows along the route of the trail of Tears into eastern Oklahoma today.


"I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven at the bayonet point into the stockades. And in the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward the west.... On the morning of November the 17th we encountered a terrific sleet and snow storm with freezing temperatures and from that day until we reached the end of the fateful journey on March the 26th 1839, the sufferings of the Cherokees were awful. The trail of the exiles was a trail of death. They had to sleep in the wagons and on the ground without fire. And I have known as many as twenty-two of them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold and exposure..."
Private John G. Burnett
Captain Abraham McClellan's Company,
2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry
Cherokee Indian Removal 1838-39

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[badlandss10]

Thumbs up for the Native Americans....!!!

[mmoushref]

@cheifeagle76 the same senior goes on and on else where in the world , we have the same history , pyramids , artifacts, pypros ... old science ,,, >>> but the Bitich Empire unified with the proclainmed U.S of Amrigo , still want to destory our history with many different ways and makes our nation just hisotry of native arabians having ruins of stones living behind the era.

[spiritwolf40]

I will never again trust you with my heart! You played me for a total fool while you run back to an abusive man. You dont deserve the dreams we dreamed together. You chose a lie of a life and i feel sorry for you. But in the end your stuck in your rut but thats what you wanted.

[cheifeagle76]

i am apache and i feel the pain of the past and what has happened to our brothers and sisters.

[ClassicRockfan79]

@inbetweentics and even more it still gose on today.. where is Native american history month? where is the native american entertainment channel? everything was stolen from the native people and yet the native people still seem to have no anger about the past, but the black people use the past as an excuse to get anything they want, or get away with anything they want.

[ClassicRockfan79]

@inbetweentics well friend your " two cents" has more value than all the money in the world... because i believe every word you said is 100% honest truth...

[inbetweentics]

lots of interesting comments on here. as one who shares native blood, i'll throw my own two cents in. if true history were taught in amerikan classrooms, the masses would understand that president lincoln wasn't so great - he sat idly by during his administration while custer and others slaughtered, defiled and banished my native ancestors. maybe if he'd been sleepin' w/a native like he had with a black slave, the only reservations we'd know today would be ones we make for ourselves in hotels..

[jfrancisification]

I, an American Indian from Montana Thank Blackie & Crew for this Song & Video, Ha'ho" (Thank You)

[guitarist100]

Blackie Lawless the master musician,composer and song writer enough said !!!

[dragonmaster3z]

and they called Hitler cruel and inhuman for what he did to the jews.Our nations founding fathers were much worse,they removed whole nations of indians and took their way of life.Many tribes are gone forever...wiped out.